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Charlie Bryant was no longer a mere offender against the law in his mind. In concentrating his official efforts against him he realized the jeopardy in which his own regard for Kate Seton placed him. He saw that his success now in ridding the district of the whisky-runner would, at the same time, rob him of all possible chance of ever obtaining the regard of this woman he loved.
"Who heard her say these things besides you?" "Another lodger named Edith Bryant and Petrofsky. We were all standing in the hall at the time." "But I thought you said Petrofsky had been turned away from the house." "So he had, a week before; but he had left a box in his room, and on this day he had come to fetch it. That was what started the trouble.
No more authentic inspiration ever visited a poet, and though Bryant wrote verse for more than sixty years after that crimson sky had paled into chill December twilight, his lines never again vibrated with such communicative passion. Bryant's ensuing career revealed the steady purpose, the stoicism, the reticence of the Puritan. It was highly successful, judged even by material standards.
He clutched my hand fervently one night, and said imploringly, 'My DEAR sister Bryant, are you a Christian? I just looked him over a bit, and then I said calmly, 'The only brother I ever had, MR. Fiske, was buried fifteen years ago, and I haven't adopted any since.
"Go bring him and make me no more trouble." The man went. Bryant lighted a cigarette and fell to surveying the store's merchandise. Several minutes passed before a murmur of voices apprised him of the coming of the men. Menocal entered the side door first, approaching heavily and sleepily the spot where the engineer waited.
"Yes, ma'am," and Mrs. Bryant resumed her shy voice and manner. "Then you may recite it, as your little schoolmates seem anxious to have you do so." So again, Mrs. Bryant diffidently made her bow, and recited, with real dramatic effect: "AN UNVISITED LOCALITY "I wisht I was as big as men, To see the Town of After Ten; I've heard it is so bright and gay, It's almost like another day.
Marmaduke; it was dated from her country place; she hoped to see me "in the autumn!" Peggy is in Europe; the General's going if she's not gone already. "May see you at the wedding of that odd Miss Bryant," ran her last brusque message. "I begged an invitation; really I like her. But the chances are against my being here." All gone, I thought; my last hope, all my friends.
Not a bit of it. Oh, dear me! I hope there are some other good things which I have done in the world that I don't remember. "A grand sermon," you heard last Sunday, hey? And then went to the "Century" Rooms, to see the decorations of the Bryant Festival! It seems to me that was rather a queer thing to do, after sermon!
Something in her attitude, in her face, gave her a girlish appearance, as she might have looked when sixteen an infinite candor, an innocence and simplicity, that alone comes from a serene spirit. Presently he discovered that she had moved her head about, that she was looking straight at him. Bryant experienced a singular emotion. "Some serious trouble is disturbing you," she said.
As he drew near, Kate Seton's deep voice greeted him. Its tone was velvety in its richness, nor was there the least inflection of astonishment in its tone. "That you, Mr. Bryant?" she said, without stirring from her attitude of luxurious enjoyment. Bill came up hurriedly. "I s'pose it is," he said with a laugh. "All that the river hasn't washed away.
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