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Mavick came out, passed him without recognition, and hurried from the office, and Philip was summoned to Mr. Hunt's room. "I want you to go to Washington immediately, Mr. Burnett. Return by the night train. You can do without your grip? Take these papers to Buckston Higgins you see the address who represents the British Argentine syndicate. Wait till he reads them and get his reply.
Miss Buckston had a manner of saying rude things in sincere unconsciousness that they could offend anybody. She herself did not take offence easily; she was, as she would have said, 'tough. But Mrs. Pepperell had all the sensitiveness for herself and for others of her race, the British race, highly strung with several centuries of transplantation to an electric climate.
Roberts Thomson and Dr. Davison saw him, and after a consultation wrote to the distinguished specialist, Mr. Buckston Browne, to be prepared to come on receipt of a telegram. On Monday Reeve was unable to get up; he consented to undergo the operation, and Mr. Browne was telegraphed for. On his arrival, about 7 o'clock in the evening, it was decided to lose no more time.
'Yes, if one cares enough about things to put them through, said Miss Buckston. 'I always tell Althea that she might make herself very useful to me. 'Exactly, said Franklin. 'And she does care. All you need do, Althea, is to harness yourself. You mustn't drift.
But the trouble was that Aunt Julia never did worst her. Even when, passing beyond the bounds of what she considered decency, she became nearly as outspoken as Miss Buckston, that lady maintained her air of cheerful yet impatient tolerance.
It was not 'frusty. Althea had a scientific regard for ventilation, and a damp breeze from the garden blew in at the furthest window. She had quite enough air. Miss Buckston was also very critical of Merriston House, and pointed out the shabbiness of the chintz and faded carpets.
She had an air of owning Bach that became peculiarly vexatious to Althea, who, in silence, but armed with new standards, was assembling her own forces and observed, in casting an eye over them, that she had heard five times as much music as Miss Buckston and might be granted the right of an opinion on it.
They are solid, and don't ape anything. So by degrees a species of friendship grew up between Miss Buckston and the girls, who said that she was a jolly old thing, and more fun than a goat, especially when she sang Bach. Mildred and Dorothy sang exceptionally well and were highly equipped musicians.
There was a welcome diversion afforded for her, when Aunt Julia came, by the prompt hostility that declared itself between her and Miss Buckston. Aunt Julia was not a person to allow a steam-roller to pass over her without protest, and Althea felt that she herself had been cowardly when she saw how Aunt Julia resented, for them both, Miss Buckston's methods.
A few months before, Althea would have been gravely disturbed by their lack of reverence; she saw it now with guilty satisfaction. Miss Buckston, among the nets they spread for her, plunged and floundered like a good-tempered bull at first with guileless acquiescence in the game, and then with growing bewilderment.
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