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"Nothing very definite, but a vessel sighted the schooner ten days ago. Mr. Bingham has no idea his brother is lost, as he is an experienced seaman, and the Binghams are positive it is only a matter of the schooner being disabled, and the crew having a hard time to reach port," replied Mr. Minturn. "If Nellie's mother only knew that," said Mrs. Bobbsey.
You must know then they are the Binghams of , upon my soul, I forget where; but highly respectable." "I regret I have not the pleasure of their acquaintance, and the more because I shall not be able to make it now." "As why?" said Tom gravely.
"Why, Trevanion," said I, "what invitation are you dreaming of? I, for one, should have been delighted to have gone home with the Binghams." "So I perceived," said Trevanion, gravely; "and it was for that precise reason I so firmly refused what, individually, I should have been most happy to accept." "Then, pray, have the goodness to explain." "It is easily done.
"This begins to be pleasant," thought I, as the door closed, leaving me alone in the "salon." In circumstances of such moment, I had never felt so nonplussed as now, how to decline Kilkee's invitation, without discovering my intimacy with the Binghams and yet I could not, by any possibility, desert them thus abruptly. Such was the dilemma.
"Why, O'Leary, who has been since your illness, the constant visiter at the Binghams dining there every day, and spending his evenings has just told me that the mamma is only waiting for the arrival of Sir Guy Lorrequer in Paris to open the trenches in all form; and from what she has heard of Sir Guy, she deems it most likely he will give her every aid and support to making you the husband of the fair Emily."
"Why, Trevanion," said I, "what invitation are you dreaming of? I, for one, should have been delighted to have gone home with the Binghams." "So I perceived," said Trevanion, gravely; "and it was for that precise reason I so firmly refused what, individually, I should have been most happy to accept." "Then, pray, have the goodness to explain." "It is easily done.
At the end of the hour we spent there it had the same effect upon him as upon Colonel Bramley, he did not wish to go any further; and we parted from the Miss Binghams, who did. As I said good-bye to Miss Cora she gave my hand a subtly sympathetic pressure, whispered tenderly, "He's very nice," and roguishly escaped before I could ask who was, or what difference it made.
The guide led the way, and it was beguiled with the fascinating experience of the Miss Binghams, who had met Queen Marguerite driving in the Villa Borghese at Rome and had received a bow from her Majesty of which nothing would ever be able to deprive them.
As old Andrew McPhail put it: "Link's there, an' he knows the bank an' books, an' just how things stand"; and so when he sold his hogs he put the whole sum -over fifteen hundred dollars into the bank. The McIlvaines and the Binghams did the same, and the bank was at once firmly established among the farmers. Only two people held out against Sanford, old Freeme Cole and Mrs.
"Marvellous simply marvellous! We enjoyed nothing so much as the marble department. It takes it out of you though we were awfully done afterwards." I wondered what Phidias would have said to the "cuttings," and whether the Miss Binghams imagined it a Briticism. It also occurred to me that one should never mix one's colloquialisms; but that, of course, did not prevent their coming round with us.
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