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Updated: May 6, 2025
"If you only said good-morning to him if you only looked at him once, on the street I don't see how you could possibly imagine.... Why, Cally, he's about the least self-seeking human being that ever lived. He's so absolutely un-self-seeking that he gives away every single thing he's got, to anybody that comes along and wants it.
The soft voice said: "All right, Dr. Vivian. Ready now!... Hello! All right...." "Hello," said Cally. Then all sounds faded away, and out of a sudden great desert of silence, she heard a man's voice, clear though it came all the way from Meeghan's Grocery, across the street from the old Dabney House, back home. "Hello?" Mr.
Singular words these, from the receiver of confidences and high favors. There fell upon Cally a nameless fear. "N-no I'm alone Why, what " "Could I speak to your mother a moment first? I have some bad news. It would be better " "No tell me! My mother's at dinner. I what are you talking about?..." Had he betrayed her already, then? Was the town now ringing with her name? Had Colonel Dalhousie ...
She was a player of known merits, rather famous for successes with hare-brained no-trumpers. And Cally, thinking what man she should ask for Hen, discovered suddenly that her thought was going much beyond a table of bridge to-night; that what she was really planning was to marry her cousin off this year. And she found herself searching about for somebody very nice for Hen, very desirable.
Mattie stayed a long time; and before she went of course other callers had drifted in.... "Are you going to Sue Louise's bridge to-night?" demanded Mattie, continuing to inspect her with evident curiosity. "Oh, Mats! I forgot all about it horrors!... And I've made another engagement!" "That means you don't want to go, Cally. You know it does...."
Even mamma affected interest in her spouse's explanations of how it all happened. "Of course the caddy simply slipped the balls in his pockets the minute your back was turned they're all thieves, the little ragamuffins," said she. "And, by the way, I haven't telephoned the bank about the silver." Encouraged by his ladies' consideration, Mr. Heth proposed a little afternoon jaunt with Cally.
His voice showed that his mind had swept away from her, over spaces; and Cally raised her eyes and looked at him. He sat gazing wide-eyed into the dull-green glow of her lamp, on his face a curious and moving look; a look humbled yet exalted, gloriously wondering, and to her the wistfullest thing she had ever seen in her life.
"That evenin' Eb come in an' set down on the edge of a chair, experimental, like he was testin' the cane. "'Miss Cally, s'e, when Elspie was out o' the room, 'you goin' t' let her go with them folks to the Alice County poorhouse? "I guess I dissembulated some under my eyelids bein' I see t' Eb's mind was givin' itself little lurches.
Here rich and poor rubbed elbows with something like that human equality so lauded by Mr. V.V. and others. And here Cally had pushed her way to Gentlemen's Furnishings, her purpose being to buy two shirts for James Thompson, Jr., neck size 13, and not to cost over one dollar each, as mamma had duly noted on the memorandum. It was ten minutes to four o'clock, as a glance at her watch now showed.
Why, you ought to be ashamed to mention your father's name!" cried mamma; and, indeed, Cally was, though for reasons not known to her mother.... Mrs. Heth walked the floor, in the grip of those agonies which the defeat of her will brought her in poignant measure. It may be that her faith in her diplomatic plan had never been triumphantly strong.
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