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The garden to the south of the house was noted in a county famous for gardens. Mr. Bucknor prided himself on having every kind of known rose that would grow in the Kentucky climate.
At the same time she smiled brightly and looked at the Misses Bucknor with no trace of either embarrassment or resentment. Jeff, who was plainly mortified at Nan's rudeness, laughed in spite of himself. One of the things that irritated Mildred more than anything else about Judith Buck was that she seemed never to take offense, nor even to know when an insult was intended.
"Uncle Billy, Miss Ann is to have the room next the guest chamber. I mean the hall room," hesitated poor Mrs. Bucknor, who was always overawed by Cousin Ann. Uncle Billy put down the two bulging telescopes he had picked up and looking piteously at Mrs. Bucknor said, "What you say, Miss Milly? I reckon I done misumberstood. You mus' 'scuse ol' Billy, Miss Milly."
The girl was suffering from blighted affections as well as mortification both of which no doubt would be dispelled by the European trip. Jeff was to settle in Louisville and the home would be closed, with Aunt Em'ly as caretaker. But what was to become of Cousin Ann? "We can't leave until her visit with us is completed," objected Mr. Bucknor.
She determined never to divulge that old Billy had engineered the visit, but intended, when the question came up with her kinsmen, to let it be understood that she, Ann Peyton, had ruled that Judith Buck belonged to the family and had as good a right to the name of Bucknor as any person bearing the name. The old men of Ryeville were seated in tilted chairs on the hotel porch.
"That is excellent," said Mrs. Bucknor. "Let me have a jar." Next Judith demonstrated the virtues of a vanishing cream and made several sales. Then the men must be told of an excellent shaving soap and healing powder. Scented soaps of all kinds were then displayed, shampoos, hair tonics, pocket combs, tooth brushes and paste. The lassitude which had held the house party in thrall was dispelled.
By golly, we haven't got too many pretty women in our family to be turning any down. I tell you, I'm going to call on her. Owe her a party call anyhow." Thus rumbled Big Josh. "Better not," warned Mr. Bob Bucknor and then, since the clan were having dinner at the hotel where "you could" and a feeling of good cheer had begun to permeate the diners, Mr.
The little touch of autumn in the air made it rather pleasant when the sun sought out their feet resting on the railing. "What's this I hear about the disappearance of Miss Ann Peyton?" asked Major Fitch. "Someone told me that she has not been heard of now for several days and Bob Bucknor is just about having a fit over it.
While she had stood there talking to Robert Bucknor young then and now old and dead and gone Billy, with ashen face, had come to her with the news that Peyton, her beloved home, was completely destroyed by fire. She had fainted. Young ladies usually fainted in those days when overcome by emotion. How the friends and cousins rallied around her with offers of assistance!
They must be somewhere and they must have gone along the road to get where they were going. Certainly they haven't passed this way or we'd have seen them," said Judge Middleton. "I hear tell Bob Bucknor has sent for Jeff to come and advise him," drawled Pete Barnes.
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