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She'd been wearing a motor-mask veil, according to her custom, in order to protect her complexion. The talc front over her face had been damaged in the morning's storm, and somehow her eyes were injured. I should have received the news sooner had I gone to the desk instead of following Mrs. Ballantree MacDonald upstairs. Off I hurried to Aline's room, where I found Mrs.
Ballantree MacDonald received the telegram, which reached her the day before Barrie's letter, she showed it at once to Aline West. It read: "Please forgive me for not saying 'Yes' as you wish to B. N. But I need give no more trouble for a long time, though. Mr. and Mrs. Vanneck leaving to-morrow. Mr.
Guthrie thought it was worth that much. "But I am buying, not selling, your land, young man," the banker had said. "I know it, sir, and I am willing to take your own figures," Jack replied at which Mr. Guthrie had laughed in a kindly way, and had then called in Mr. Ballantree and another man how the three had then talked in a corner, and how he had heard Mr.
That's a pretty name," he said, shaking hands with Barrie, his eyes on her face. "Miss Barribel Ballantree, I suppose." "You may suppose so!" returned Mrs. Bal, laughing. "I saw this young lady sitting out in front," he went on, instead of congratulating the actress at once on the success of the first act, which had "gone" splendidly with the large audience.
Many men of thirty-four were bored with girls, and Somerled must have been bored by them already in their thousands. Still, something that lay deep down within herself was sad and anxious. A daughter of the beautiful and almost notorious Mrs. Ballantree MacDonald! If he weren't in love with the girl, perhaps he had had a desperate love affair with the mother. "I'd no idea that Mrs.
I don't mean taxes; I find they have been paid," continued Ballantree. Jack shifted his seat so he could get a better view of the speaker's face, and said in answer: "Why do you ask?" "Because," said the man with entire frankness, "we understand that the Maryland Mining Company have an option on it. If that is so, I'll stop where I am. We don't care to buck up against Breen & Co."
"Ballantree was her name before she was married," the girl admitted. "And her Christian name's Barbara. Do you know her?" "I do, slightly," replied the man. "But I had no idea that she " He broke off abruptly, looking more closely than ever at the vivid face under the knitted tam. "I suppose, if you don't know her very well, she never spoke to you about having a daughter?" Barrie asked.
"Crockett has done for Galloway what Scott did for Tweedside," said Sir S. "It's his country. He has made it live. When I give this girl the promised present of Carlyle and Shakespeare, I must add Crockett. That is, as she reminded me" and he smiled "if Mrs. Ballantree MacDonald allows Ian of that ilk to lay gifts at her daughter's feet." "Oh, she'll permit Barrie to accept books," said Mrs.
Ballantree MacDonald, and I don't believe there's anything worse to hear, than that she's a spoiled, flattered, selfish, and self-centred beauty, who expects every man to fall down before her, and generally gets what she expects. None of us talked much to Barrie about her mother, though at first she was continually bringing up the subject.
She was a Miss Ballantree, and her first name was Barbara, I believe; but she disliked it, and when her husband wished to have the child christened the same, she insisted on Barribel. It seems that is an old Scottish name also, or Celtic perhaps, for she was Irish, though I know nothing of her family. But Barribel has always sounded frivolous to me."
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