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Updated: September 13, 2025
She crossed this street and glanced furtively up at the front of the brick building; then she returned, and entered a door opening on a flight of steep brass-rimmed stairs. On the second landing she rang a bell, and a mulatto girl with a bushy head and a frilled apron let her into a hall where a stuffed fox on his hind legs proffered a brass card-tray to visitors.
Tongues were flying fast, and no one heard the bell ring. Presently Katie appeared in the doorway with the card-tray saying: "Miss Ruth, there is a gentleman down-stairs who wants to see Mrs. Hamilton, and I can't make him understand where she is." Ruth looked at the card curiously and then fell back on the sofa with a startled face.
"I should have thought," he said, "that even you would have spotted a practice I never omit upon certain occasions. I always pay a visit to the drawing-room, and fill my waistcoat pocket from the card-tray. It is an immense help in any little temporary impersonation.
Whereat the women clapped their hands, their husbands winked at one another, and "there was a sound of revelry by night." The check was put on a silver card-tray by Mrs. Worthington and set on a table in the midst of the company waiting for Handy to come forward and take it. After the town had looked at the check, Mrs. Handy seemed to cut his leashes and Abner went after it.
It was quite evident that Mrs. Purvis was honestly trying to remember the lady's name, but could not do so. And then I had what seemed to me an inspiration. "Didn't she give you her card?" I asked. A light broke over Mrs. Purvis's face. "Why, yes, of course she did! And I'm sure I can find it." She turned to a card-tray, and rapidly running over the bits of pasteboard, she selected three or four.
Nelson does come here, you be sure to put on your white apron before you open the door; and for pity sake don't forget the card-tray! You ought to know better than to stick out your hand for a lady's calling-card. I told you about that last week." Aunt Melvy paused in her dusting and chuckled: "Lor', honey, dat's right! You orter put on airs all de time, wid all de money de judge is got.
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