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Isabel might give him a chance to exhibit his conversational powers My! if he ain't going to dance again with Dolly Boutts! I'd like to know how Isabel fancies that!"
"For my part, although I do not approve of young unmarried women living alone, still I cannot believe such dreadful things of anybody, let alone Isabel Otis. I am glad Anabel is not here. She would never listen to any insinuation against Isabel, and might be tempted to disrespect of her elders." "And you, Mrs. Boutts?" asked the President.
There was nothing left before him now but San Francisco or a balloon; heaven being out of the question. Miss Boutts awaited the buggy, in the tiny porch, and had obeyed Isabel's behest to look her prettiest.
So he merely shrugged his shoulders and said, with what calmness he could muster: "Be kind enough to take her home. I will return the entire library if you need it." "Oh, I have finished. I am sorry you have been bored." And she carefully gathered up her papers and went to the rescue of the weary Miss Boutts, while Gwynne ordered the buggy.
I'm as proud as punch of them." "And the men?" asked Isabel. Did they play, too? Miss Boutts replied that they were too busy in the daytime, but were asked once a week to a "bang-up" affair. Their other evenings they spent at the lodges "or any old place," added Miss Boutts, who had no brothers, and a very busy father.
One morning she met the beauty of Rosewater on Main Street, Miss Dolly Boutts, a girl who had been half grown when she left, but one of her own rapturous admirers. Main Street was crowded, but Miss Boutts rushed up and kissed her, protesting that she had been trying for two months to get out to see her.
They had endeavored to extract the funds from their stingy lords by private subscription, failing an appeal to the City Fathers, who found other uses for the public funds; but even the civic Mr. Boutts was not ready for such an outlay.
"Well, as you know, I don't sleep very well, and I often get up and sit at the window, watching for the boat 'bus, and just imagining where the people who are out late, or up early, are going to and what they are thinking about. Well, I've seen him" jerking her shoulder at Gwynne, who was now dancing with Miss Boutts "I've seen him riding home from here as late as ten or half-past, many a night.
She kept her profile from him and he saw only her smiling eyes and red half-opened mouth. "I had to telephone to make sure you would be at home," she said. "They say I mustn't come out here alone, and I didn't want Miss Boutts to be bored while I was at work. I'll leave you two here on the porch. That will be quite proper."
Anabel Colton, Dolly Boutts, and Serena Wheaton, after half a day's telephoning, decided to "wear their necks," and their hostess agreed to keep them in countenance. Every team in Rosewater was bespoken for the distinguished occasion, and the reports of the weather bureau were consulted daily. But the rains held off and the night of the party was brilliant with starlight, and not too cold.
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