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Updated: June 4, 2025
THE melancholy disaster of the Petrel happened on Monday; it was not until the Thursday following that the evil tidings reached Longbridge. Elinor, accompanied by Mary Van Alstyne, set out quite early in the morning to pay some visits at different country-houses in the neighbourhood.
Van Alstyne and his wife and about twenty more who had come up from the city for the funeral and stayed over on the house. Well, the old doctor left me the buttons for his full dress waistcoat and his favorite copy of Gray's Anatomy.
Van Alstyne and I had to hide him again, which is further on in the story, he went to the old shelter-house like a dog to its kennel, only this time but that's ahead, too. Well, the family went back to town in a buzz of indignation, and I carried my waistcoat buttons and my Anatomy out to the spring-house and had a good cry.
Being a substitute was as much as some of them had any desire for, for as such they might share in the glory, and have only a small measure of the actual work. When just before school took up, Nick Lang came along, he was the "cynosure of every eye," as Reggie Van Alstyne was heard to remark in his elegant way. Nick had evidently made up his mind to just "grin and stand it."
"Good-by," said Joel with a smile as cheery, for he really liked her the best of all Polly's girl friends. After the dance, supper was announced, and everybody marched out to the supper room; the dancers with their partners following. "Will you allow me?" Mr. Alstyne seeing the movement, got out of his chair and offered his arm to Polly with a courtly bow.
"You can't expect her to stay for the goodies," beginning to nibble at her own. "Where is she?" cried Mr. Alstyne, laughing, and sweeping the room with his brown eyes. "Oh! I see," his glance lighting on the Whitney boys' corner. "Yes, she told me to tell you," said Alexia, between her mouthfuls of salad and oyster, "where she is," as he started. "Oh, Percy and Van!"
His name is Gerald Van Alstyne, and he is tall, with curly golden hair, piercing blue eyes and a cleft chin; in short, a veritable Adonis and different, so different, from the traveling salesmen who leer at her across the counter and the loutish youths of San Pasqual who, despairing of her favor, call her by her first name because they know it annoys her.
King suddenly, as they all sat in the library for a last evening talk; "guess quickly." "Who?" cried several voices. "Why, I thought you didn't want any outsiders, father," exclaimed Jasper in surprise. "Well, and I didn't when I said so, but circumstances are changed now come, guess quickly, some one?" "The Cabots," said Jasper at a venture. "No, no; guess again." "Mr. Alstyne?" "No; again."
"One would naturally incline rather more to a client of yours ex officio, Mr. Ellsworth, than to one of Mr. Clapp's, that very disagreeable brother-in-law of Miss Patsey Hubbard's," said Mary Van Alstyne, smiling. It was soon decided that the party should break up the next day. The Wyllyses, with Mrs. Stanley and Mary Van Alstyne, were to return to Longbridge. Mrs. Creighton and Mr.
Van Alstyne, who showed the frailer Dutch type, with high blue-veined forehead and pale eyes and lashes, made a characteristic Vandyck, in black satin, against a curtained archway.
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