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"But what do you think?" Mrs. Bogardus recalled him. "Don't you think it's a mistake all around?" "Not at all, if they have a good man. This flat-footed fellow, John, will take command, as he should. There is no danger in the woods at any season unless the party gets rattled and goes to pieces for want of a head." "Father!" exclaimed Moya. "You know there is danger. Often, things have happened!"
The doctor did not try to understand her: yet she had snatched a little comfort from merely uttering the words. Paul and the doctor dined together, Mrs. Bogardus excusing herself. "There seems to be an impression here," said the doctor, examining the initials on his fish-fork, "that your mother is indulging an overstrained fancy in this melancholy resemblance she has traced.
The words carried their unintentional sting. But it was Moya's six lines at the bottom of his page that changed and softened everything. Moya always blessed when she took the initiative contrived, as swiftly as she could set them down, to say the very words that made the home-coming a coming home indeed. "Will Madam Bogardus be pleased to keep her place as the head of her son's house?" she wrote.
I should simply die in those awful things that you wear. Did you ever know such a hot house as the colonel keeps!" "The rooms are small, and the colonel is impulsive," Mrs. Bogardus added with a smile. "There is something very like him about his fire-making. I should know by the way he puts on wood that he never would have " Mrs. Bogardus checked herself. "A large bank account?"
The next moment she had corrected her facial expression, and was offering smiling condolences to Mrs. Bogardus on the state of her attire. "It is only my jacket. You might put that somewhere to dry," said the lady curtly. Raindrops sparkled on the wave of thick iron-gray hair that lifted itself, with a slight turn to one side, from her square low brow.
But it costs something." Mrs. Bogardus was so concise in her speech as at times to be almost oracular. "Army people are sure of their way out," said Christine, "and I guess they find it costs something." "Why do they buy so many books, I wonder? If I moved as often as they do, I'd have only paper covers and leave them behind." "You are not a reader, mummy. You're a business woman.
On his way down the river the doctor continued to muse upon the dignity, the amazingly beautiful behavior of this rising family in whose somewhat commonplace city fortunes he had taken a friendly interest for years. He owned that he had sounded them with too short a line. Watching with the dying man hours when she was with him alone, Emily Bogardus continued to test his resolution.
Having spread the alarm, Mrs. Bogardus took the field in person. Her head was bare in the keen, sunset light. She moved with strong, fleet steps, but a look of sudden age stamped her face. "Go back, all of you!" she said to the women, who crowded on her heels. "There are plenty of places to look." Her stern eyes resisted their frightened sympathy.
Bogardus appeared to you to have made any discovery received any shock not to be accounted for by by what you both saw?" "I shouldn't attempt to answer such a question," said the youngster bluntly. "I never saw Mrs. Bogardus in my life before to-day." The doctor colored. "Mrs. Bogardus has given me a telegram to send, and I don't know whether to send it or not.
The boys are just fashionable young men." "Can't they go hunting without Paul?" "Wheels within wheels!" Mrs. Bogardus sighed impatiently. "Hunting trips are expensive, and when young men are living on their fathers, it is convenient sometimes to have a third. However, Paul goes, I half believe, to prevent their making a descent upon us here."
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