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Updated: May 13, 2025
Millard felt sure that she would at least have come to learn the condition of the sick boy had she been able. He hesitated to make inquiry after Phillida's health. Her effort to avoid conversation with him assured him that she preferred not to encourage a new intimacy. But though he debated, he did not delay going straight to the Callenders' and ringing the bell. Agatha came to the door.
Many of them were familiar acquaintances and chirruped good-by to the Callenders. Passes? No trouble whatever! Charlie need only do this and that and so and so, and there you were!
In the circuit of a single week, happening to be thrown daily and busily into "her" society, "the harpoon had struck." He chose the phrase as an honest yet delicate reminder of the compact made when last the two chums had ridden together. All three of the Callenders were in the evening group, and the five talked about an illumination of the city, set for the following night.
Had the Callenders dwelt up-town the truth might have won out; but where they were, as they were, they might as well have been in unspeakable Boston. And so by her own sweet excusings she kept alive against them beliefs or phantoms of beliefs, which would not have lived a day in saner times.
While the Judge lived the Callenders had been used to the company of men by the weight of whose energies and counsel the clock of public affairs ran and kept time; senators, bishops, bank presidents, great lawyers, leading physicians; a Dr. Sevier, for one. Some of these still enjoyed their hospitality, and of late in the old house life had recovered much of its high charm and breadth of outlook.
The Callenders looked heart-wrung, but Flora smiled on as she thought what comfort it would be to give each of them some life-long disfigurement. Suddenly Constance cheered up: "Flora, I've guessed something! Yes, I've guessed who was intending and, maybe, still intends to bring him!" Flora turned prettily to Anna: "Have you?" Quite as prettily Anna laughed.
Out in the bay the fleet, about to anchor, turned and awaited the new onset. By the time it was at hand the Mobile gunboats, one burning, one fled, one captured, counted for nothing, yet on crept the Tennessee, still singling out the Hartford, and here the two Callenders, their boat hovering as near Powell and Gaines as it dared, looked on the titanic mêlée that fell round her.
The Callenders, Valcours, and Victorine were a committee by themselves and could meet at Callender House.
Inside the letter was one to Anna. But Anna was gone. Two days earlier, without warning, the Callenders as much to Flora's affright as to their relief, and "as much for Fred's good as for anything," said his obdurate general when Flora in feigned pity pleaded for their stay had been deported into the Confederacy.
She came into touch with the intimate problems of the most wonderful social organism the world has ever seen, and was confronted with stupendous works of nature and illimitable solitudes wherein the soul stands appalled. She also ate a great quantity of peaches. When her visit to the Callenders had come to an end she armed herself with introductions and started off by herself to see America.
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