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Atherton's call at once, and take a card and turn down one corner or the other, I don't know which, but this girl of hers can tell you. Pump her dry as a powder horn; find out what the quality do, and then do it, and not bother about the expense. I am going in for a good time, and don't mean to work either.
Then he took off his spectacles, and shut them in their case, which he put back into his waistcoat pocket. "This is all right," he said. He cleared his throat, and, lifting the fierce glimmer of his eyes to Atherton's, he asked, drily, "What is the law, at present?" Atherton briefly recapitulated the points as he had them from Halleck. "That's good," said the old man.
"But don't let's quarrel, little lady. You've come down to entertain me, I dare say; and now tell me who you are." His manner at once disarmed the impulsive Edith of all prejudice, and she replied: "I told you I was Edith Hastings, Mrs. Atherton's waiting maid." "Waiting maid!" and Arthur St. Claire took a step or two backwards as he said: "Why are you in here? This is not your place."
The plan for Halleck's flight was no longer his own, but Atherton's; and when he did not rebel against it, he only passively acquiesced.
She had her doubts about living happily with her. But Atherton was anxious for this division of the property, and he was her youngest darling, so she gave in. She felt lonely, and out of her element, when everything was arranged, she established in the southwest fire-room, and Atherton's family keeping house in the others, though things started pleasantly and peaceably enough.
Thirsey's got the croup, an' Atherton's away, and there ain't anybody to go for the doctor. O what shall I do, what shall I do!" She fairly wrung her hands. "Hev you tried the skunk's oil?" asked Grandma eagerly, preparing to get up. "Yes, I have, I have! It's a good hour since she woke up, an' I've tried everything. It hasn't done any good.
"Oh, I can't, I can't," cried Edith, clinging to Mrs. Atherton's skirt, and begging of her not to send her back. "Where will you go?" asked Grace. "I don't want you here." "I don't know," sobbed Edith, uttering the next instant a scream of joy, as she saw, in the distance, the carriage from Collingwood, and knew that Richard was in it. "To him! to him!" she exclaimed, throwing up her arms.
Atherton, he's hardly thirty yet, and those who have seen him since his return from Europe, pronounce him a splendid looking man, with an air of remarkably high breeding. I wonder if there IS any truth in the report that he is to bring with him a bride." "A bride, Kitty!" and the massive silver fork dropped from Grace Atherton's hand.
Graham's pictur and gin him yourn 'long of one of them curls how he's writ and you've writ, and how he's gone off to the eends of the airth to get rid on you and how you try to cotch young Mas'r Durward, who hate the sight on you how you waylay him one day, settin' on a rock out by the big gate and how you been seen mighty nigh fifty times comin' home afoot from Captain Atherton's in the night, rainin' thunder and lightnin' hard as it could pour how after you done got Miss Anna to 'lope, you ax Captain Atherton to have you, and git mad as fury 'cause he 'fuses and how your mother warn't none too likely, and a heap more that I can't remember hain't you heard of none on't?"
The latter and two of his troops belonged to Atherton's fine regiment, the th, the other two troops, Cranston's and Truman's, were, as we know, of the Eleventh, and here in presence of four officers of the latter's regiment, and a dozen of the Fortieth Foot and of the th Horse, here on the broad parade of the cantonment, at high noon and in plain sight and hearing even of three or four enlisted men, orderlies, horse-holders, etc., had the post commander spoken words that meant nothing short of discredit, if not disgrace, to the subaltern who was at that very instant riding away on a perilous as well as thankless mission.
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