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He also made some ill-timed compliments on the neatness of the blow I had dealt Mr. Belknap-Jackson, but these I found in wretched taste and was begging him to desist, when the Mixer entered and began to speak much in the same strain.
At this I saw there was little I could say, except that I had coarsely given way to the brute in me, and yet I knew I should try to explain. "I dare say, Madam, it may have been because Mr. Belknap-Jackson was quite sober at the unfortunate moment." "Of course Charles was sober. The idea! What of it?"
Once safely within the room I contrived a moment alone with him and removed his single spat, not too gently, I fear, for the nervous strain since his arrival had told upon me. "You have reason to be thankful," I said, "that Belknap-Jackson was not present to witness this." "They cost seven and six," he muttered, regarding the one spat wistfully. "But why Belknap-Jackson?" "Mr.
I had brought hither the Honourable George, promising a personage who would for once and all unify the North Side set and perhaps disintegrate its rival. I had been felicitated upon my master-stroke. And now it seemed I had come a cropper. But I resolved not to give up, and said as much now to Belknap-Jackson.
"The Belknap-Jacksons were rather expecting him, you know. My impression was that the Honourable George had been sent to escort him to the Belknap-Jackson house." "Well, that's what I thought, too, but I guess the Judge forgot it, or mebbe he thinks the guy will mix in better with Mis' Kenner's crowd. Anyway, there they was, and it probably didn't make any difference to the guy himself.
"I'll take the piece down now and he can print it in his paper for you to-morrow." "You can't understand," she replied impatiently. "I casually mentioned our having brought an English manservant. Print that now and insult all our best people who received him!" "Pathetic how little the poor chap understands," sighed Belknap-Jackson. "No sense at all of our plight naturally, naturally!"
Effie, escorted by the Honourable George and cousin Egbert, was among the early arrivals; the Senator being absent from town at a sitting of the House. These were quickly followed by the Belknap-Jacksons and the Mixer, resplendent in purple satin and diamonds, all being at one of my large tables, so that the Honourable George sat between Mrs. Belknap-Jackson and Mrs.
The latter had not dressed and I was able to detect that Belknap-Jackson, doubtless noting his guest's attire at the last moment, had hastily changed back to a lounge-suit of his own. Also I noted the absence of the Mixer and wondered how the host had contrived to eliminate her. On this point he found an opportunity to enlighten me before taking his seat.
"We shall leave it all to him. How many will you ask, Ruggles?" Her eyes flicked from mine to Belknap-Jackson. "Quite almost every one," I answered firmly. "Fine!" she said. "Ripping!" said his lordship. "His lordship will of course wish a best man," suggested Belknap-Jackson. "I should be only too glad " "You're going to suggest Ruggles again!" cried the lady. "Just the man for it!
Once I was almost moved to call up Belknap-Jackson, so intolerable was the menacing uncertainty; but this I knew bordered on hysteria, and I restrained the impulse with an iron will. But I wretchedly longed for a sight of Cousin Egbert or the Mixer, or even of the Honourable George; some one to assure me that my horrid dream of the night before had been a baseless fabric, as the saying is.
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