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She was quite aware of the young workman's hopeless passion and she managed him as skillfully as she did the more assured, sophisticated, and sometimes "illuminated" Jimmie Thorne and Bascom Luning. She received him in the great drawing-room behind the tea-table, laden with the massive silver of dead and gone Ballingers. "I've only been home a week," she said gayly. "See what a good friend I am.
Levitt, she wouldn't. There was another thing that Mr. Waddington dreaded even more than that dangerous encounter: Fanny's knowing that he had turned the Ballingers out. As he would have been very unwilling to admit that Mrs. Levitt had forced his hand there, he took the whole of the responsibility for that action.
As she covered him with her brilliant eyes he tightened his shoulders and stood firm, while his spirit braced itself against persuasion. If it was the Ballingers' cottage "I really am ashamed of myself. I never seem to send for you unless I'm in trouble." "Isn't that the time?" His voice thickened. "So long as you do send " He thought: It isn't the Ballingers' cottage then. "It's your own fault.
Trinder's son's just been demobilized, and she wants our rooms for his wife and family." "Come surely we can find other rooms." "All the best ones are taken. There's nothing left that I'd care to live in.... Besides, it isn't rooms I want, Mr. Waddington, it's a house." It was, of course, the Ballingers' cottage. But she couldn't have it. She couldn't have it. "I wouldn't mind how small it was.
She'll float with the stream and all streams lead to Burlingame." "I have no fear about Joan," said Mrs. Abbott, with dignity. "Four years are a long time. I shall sow seeds, and she is a born Ballinger I am dreadfully afraid that my dear father is coming out in you. Even the boys are Ballingers "
For the kind of silly thing it was, his speech wasn't half bad." "What? About going over the top? Oh, Lord! And after turning the Ballingers out, too." Ralph was silent. "What's happened to him? He didn't use to be like that. He must be mad, or something." Ralph thought of Mrs. Levitt. "He's getting old and he doesn't like it. That's what's the matter with him."
All the other children had been clean-cut Ballingers or Groomes, consistently dark or fair; but it would seem that Nature, taken by surprise when the little Alexina came along several years after her mother was supposed to have discharged her debt, had mixed the colors hurriedly and quite forgotten her usual nice proportions.
The Abbotts, like the Ballingers and Groomes and Gearys and many others of that ilk, had not come to California in the fifties and sixties as adventurers, but with all that was needed to give them immediate prestige in the new community; and, among those that still retained their estates in the San Mateo Valley, at least, there was as little prospect of their reversion to shirt sleeves as of their conversion to the red shirt of socialism.
Ballinger had removed himself and his wife and family to Susan's father's farm at Medlicott, a good two and a half miles from his work on Colonel Grainger's land, thus providing himself with a genuine grievance. And Fanny would keep on talking about it at dinner. "Those poor Ballingers! It's an awful pity he gave up the Sheep Street cottage. Didn't you tell him he was a fool, Horatio?"
Waddington of Wyck and Mrs. Levitt's benefactor. And as he waited in the low, mullion-darkened room he reminded himself that he had come to refuse her request. If, as he suspected, it was the Ballingers' cottage that she wanted.
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