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As they sat there a little longer in the quiet library, forgetting the late evening hour, because it was morning all at once to them; forgetting Sylvie Argenter and her mother as they were at just this moment in the next room; only remembering them among those whom this new relation and joining of purpose must make surer and safer, not less carefully provided for in the changes that would occur, the door of the gray parlor opened; a quick step fell along the passage, and Sylvie unlatched the library door, and stood in the entrance wide-eyed and pale.
"But the flowers, I fancy, Rod, would be coals to Newcastle. They have a greenhouse." "And have never had a decent man to manage it. It came to nothing this year. She told me so. You see it just is a literal new castle. Mr. Argenter is too busy in town to look after it; and they've been cheated and disappointed right and left.
"I mean, I know how she takes other girls to ride; she sets them down at the small gray house, the house without any piazza or bay window, Michael!" and Mr. Argenter laughed. That was the order he had heard Sylvie give one day when he had come up with his own carriage at the post-office in the village, whither he had walked over for exercise and the evening papers.
She may have that as often as she pleases." And Mrs. Argenter knew that this ended or had better end the conversation. For that time. Sylvie Argenter did get used to having a pony-chaise, after all.
"I came up here after you, Miss Argenter. Did you know it?" "No. After me? How?" asked Sylvie. "To see if you and your mother would come and make your home with us this winter, pretty much as you do with Mrs. Jeffords.
The cheerfulness of doing followed irresistibly after, into the loops and intervals of time, and kept out the fear and the repining. "There was nothing that chippered you up so, as being real driving busy," Mrs. Jeffords said. Mrs. Argenter sat in her low easy-chair, watched away the time, and worried about the time to come. It left no leisure for a laugh.
I've got all over it, and I like the russet a great deal better. I wish you could." "I can't begin again," said Mrs. Argenter. "My life is torn up by the roots, and there is the end of it." It was true. Sylvie felt that it was so, as her mother spoke, and she reproached herself for her own light content. How could her mother make intimacy with Mrs. Knoxwell, the old blacksmith's wife, or Mrs.
Argenter exteriorly. So long as Miss Kirkbright and the Sherretts indorsed anything, it could not harm them much, or fence them out altogether from what they had been. Amy Sherrett and Miss Kirkbright thought well of the Ingrahams, and maintained all their dealings with them in a friendly even intimate fashion.
She had a way of intimacy with the servants which Mrs. Argenter found it hard to check. She liked to get into Jane's room when she was "doing herself up" of an afternoon, and look over her cheap little treasures in her band-box and chest-drawer. She made especial love to a carnelian heart, and a twisted gold ring with two clasped hands on it.
Argenter; but that the value of these fell of course, with the railroad shares; and the railroad was, at present, at any rate, mere moonshine; stopped short, probably, in the woods somewhere, waiting for the country to be settled up beyond Latterend. "Am I bound by my promise against such a time as this?" Rodney wrote back to Aunt Euphrasia.
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