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"Now that's fine, Cabot and Alstyne, to drop in of this dismal evening." "We've called to condole with you all," said both gentlemen, as they were divested of their wet garments, "but it doesn't seem as if our services were needed" with a glance at Grandpapa and his group. "Oh, my family gets over any little disappointment such as bad weather," observed the old gentleman, with pride.
"'You don't know; 'there's a mistake; 'you never saw the letter before! Oh, if I were only a man!" "I'll tell you what we'll do," Mr. Pierce said, with something like hope in his voice. "We'll send for Mr. Van Alstyne! That's the thing, of course. I'll send for er Jim." Mr. Van Alstyne's name is Sam, but nobody noticed. "Mr. Van Alstyne!" repeated Miss Patty in a dazed way.
Her whole manner, indeed, was always natural; its simplicity was its great charm, for one felt confident that her grace and sweetness, her ease and quiet dignity, flowed readily from her character itself. Whether these ideas occurred to any of the party besides Miss Van Alstyne, we cannot say; it is certain, however, that Mrs.
Then she knew by the hush that she had astonished them, and she grew frightened; but she stood just so, and would not let her look shrink; for she still felt just as she did when the words came. Mrs. Van Alstyne broke the pause with a good-natured laugh. "We can't go quite back to that, every time," she said. "And we don't quite set up to be angels. Come, try one more round."
Adelaide Marchbanks had overtaken her on the hill, on her way "down street" to do some errand, and had walked on with her very affably. At parting she had said to her, in an off-hand, by-the-way fashion, "Ruth, why won't you come over to-night, and take tea? I should like you to hear Mrs. Van Alstyne sing, and she would like your playing.
"I made it all right with father," said Jasper, "as soon as I heard of your plan; and Mr. Alstyne is on his way over to take my place; at least he ought to be in response to my note. Don't worry, Polly; come." "Oh! what perfectly elegant seats," exclaimed Alexia Rhys, waving her big ostrich fan contentedly, and sweeping the audience with a long gaze. "Everybody is here to-night, Pickering."
Fisher, as whose aide-de-camp Van Alstyne was acting, should break up the group before Selden reached the threshold of the room. One or two of the men wandered off in search of their partners for supper, and the others, noticing Selden's approach, gave way to him in accordance with the tacit freemasonry of the ball-room.
The moral oppression had produced a physical craving for air, and he strode on, opening his lungs to the reverberating coldness of the night. At the corner of Fifth Avenue Van Alstyne hailed him with an offer of company. "Walking? A good thing to blow the smoke out of one's head. Now that women have taken to tobacco we live in a bath of nicotine.
The faithful squire took his place close to the curb; Lou next, a little peacocky in her bright and pretty clothes; Nancy on the inside, slender, and soberly clothed as the sparrow, but with the true Van Alstyne Fisher walk thus they set out for their evening's moderate diversion. I do not suppose that many look upon a great department store as an educational institution.
Van Alstyne is afraid of the whole thing: she won't stand for that." "I guess she could endure it," I remarked dryly. "It's astonishing how much of that sort of thing a woman can bear." He looked at me and grinned. "By gad," he said, "I wouldn't be as sophisticated as you are for a good deal. Isn't that the sleigh?" Everybody had heard it.
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