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But you got to stand some losses now and then if you're goin' to keep in line for an occasional big cleanup. And, anyway, it was worth while to head Elisha P. Bayne's boob list. You ought to see the sarcastic smiles he used to shoot over when we'd meet and he'd ask if I'd heard from, my dancing friends yet. Say, I expect I furnished the one joke of his life.
Gradually the catastrophe ceased to be the paramount sensation of the country-side. Bayne's interests of necessity had drawn him back to his city office. He had remonstrated against the decision of the two bereaved women to remain in the bungalow for a time.
Bayne's right to assume the chair of interpretative criticism. But still there are so many examples in his book of fine and true perception, and so evident a sympathy with intellectual excellence and moral beauty, that we do not feel disposed to quarrel with him on account of the apparent erroneousness of some of his separate opinions.
Knowing of Bayne's hobby for linguistics, the oculist jocularly turned these archaic curios over to him.
Henry went to his forge and worked till dinner-time. Nay, more, was a beautiful whistler, and always whistled a little at his work: so to-day he whistled a great deal: in fact, he over-whistled. At dinner-time he washed his face and hands and put on his coat to go out. But he had soon some reason to regret that he had not acted on Bayne's advice to the letter.
He had heard from his wife the interpretation that she had placed on Bayne's sudden visit to this secluded spot, and though he well knew its falsity, he could but sympathize with her hope. "Lillian is very sensitive." "I think it is up to me to be sensitive on that subject; but her sensitiveness at this late day is what gave me the cold shivers."
As it was, the brief colloquy on the business interests that had brought him hither was almost concluded before the problem of his host's manner began to intrude on Bayne's consciousness.
Briscoe was quite satisfied to be a woman, and was avowedly seeking to add to the normal subtleties of this state the special craft of a matchmaker. Briscoe desired to avoid being drawn into any confession of his knowledge of Bayne's attitude of mind, and, aware of his own lack of diplomacy, sheered off precipitately from the subject.
Bayne's opinion that such an expression was not only exaggerated, inasmuch as the nurse was not, and never had been, a beggar; but, coming from a child to her mother, was harsh and unfilial. "The criticism of my heart," he wrote, "tells me that Lady Clare could never have said that." Tennyson was perhaps the last man in Christendom to have accepted the testimony of Mr. Bayne's heart-throbs.
"Both are B's, aren't they? And different, too. This is Mrs. Bayne's, anyway I was with her when she bought these. But these ? Oh, I know now, Ann! That little cousin of the Potters', what was her name, Rosemary?" "Sutter, madam! Guess again." "No; but her unmarried name, I mean?" "Oh, Beatty, of course!" supplied Ann. "Aren't you clever to remember that! I'll tie them up.
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