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He had seated himself, and was smoking with an abstracted air, his eyes fixed on vacancy. "Now, papa, you will go to bed very soon yourself, won't you?" she urged. "You look sick, and I know you are tired out." "Very soon, honey," Carroll replied. After Charlotte had gotten into bed, and lay there with her lamp on a stand beside her and her book in hand, she listened more than she read.
Maruja stood up in her seat, with her veil thrown back, her graceful hand extended, her eyes and mouth tremulous with an irresistible smile. The stranger came nearer, singled out Captain Carroll, tossed the fan to him with a slight nod, and passed on the other side. "One moment," said Maruja, almost harshly, to the driver. "One moment," she continued, drawing her purse from her pocket brusquely.
"Come in," said the rich, familiar voice, and Susan entered the dim, chilly, orderly room, her heart beyond any words daunted and dismayed. Mrs. Carroll, gaunt and white, wrapped in a dark wrapper, and idly rocking in mid-afternoon, was a sight to strike terror to a stouter heart than Susan's. "Oh, Susan?" said she. She said no more. Susan knew that she was unwelcome.
"I was irritated because we were two to one, you see, and Carroll backed me up. 'A double door, with a grille in front of it, he repeated for the fiftieth time.... Rangon merely replied that it wasn't our good faith he doubted. He didn't actually use the word 'drunk.... "'Mais tiens, he said suddenly, trying to conceal his mirth.
I know we shall always be getting into scrapes if we go to her, and no one could please her, Lydia said so." "Nonsense," said Mrs. Carroll warmly, "Lydia is a very rude girl to speak so of a lady, and my sister, and if I were remaining here I should not allow you all to go into the kitchen so much. It will be very good for you to try to please your aunt.
Carroll, deeply annoyed because the question was one of the most embarrassing that could have been put to her. "Who do you consider is the right person to attend to such matters, myself or yourself?" Esther sighed, but made no answer. She had no doubt as to who was the right person, her doubt was as to the right person's doing it. The matter, though, was too important for her to be easily daunted.
It will be remembered that, at the request of his father, and at the earnest desire of Henry Carroll, as well as by the promptings of his own wish to do justice to the heiress, he had gone to Vicksburg, for the purpose of keeping an eye on the movements of Maxwell. On his arrival at the hotel, he found the attorney, and dined With him; but after dinner he suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.
"If," said he "if you think I marry your daughter if her father goes in debt for the wedding expenses, you are mistaken." Carroll said nothing. He stood as if stunned. The other went on with a burst of furious truth: "See here, Arthur Carroll," said he, "I like you, and you know how I feel about your girl.
"Yes yes, this is David Carroll I'm glad you think it was sweet of me to telephone I want to speak to your sister She isn't there? Well, ask her to telephone me at headquarters as soon as she comes in, will you? Uh-huh! the Warren case has ended and that's what I wanted to tell her I only did my best Yes Oh! say " The receiver clicked on the hook.
He had some good tea, and a tea-kettle, and he made us a cup, and we talked over the home news, Dodge and I and two other gentlemen and three ladies of the party. You see, Dodge was comparatively fresh from home. He had only been quartered there about a month." "Yes," said Carroll. "He spoke of seeing you quite recently.
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