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"I would say," she went on mincingly, "it will afford me great pleasure." "You mean, then," Mrs. McMahon inquired, "that you've picked us out to help uplift the other women?" As Cicily nodded assent, she continued, condescendingly: "Well, if I do have to say it myself, there's many of them as needs it." Presently, Mrs. Carrington and Mrs.
There followed a lengthy and acrimonious debate among the men, to which Cicily listened with an air of half-amused, half-bored tolerance. She was, in fact, thrilling with delight over her inspiration, which had at last come after such long waiting. She felt an intuitive conviction that her ruse would win the battle for her husband's success.
Charles chooses business first any man would." The inexorable question followed: "Well, what are you going to do?" Then, as no answer came: "I beg of you, Cicily, not to be rash. Don't do anything that will cause you regret after you have come into a calmer mood. Of course, once on a time, marriage was first with men, and I think that it should be first now I know that it should.
"Of course," Hamilton suggested, still sneeringly, "Morton and Carrington, too, are our dear brothers." For an instant, Cicily was nonplused by the question; but, of a sudden, she received one of those inspirations on which she usually relied for escape from a predicament.
Alexanders boiled in wine, and the wine drank, also sweet servile, sweet cicily, angelica roots, and musterwort, are excellent remedies in this case. Or, if this fail, the smoke of marigolds, received up a woman's privities by a funnel, have been known to bring away the after-birth, even when the midwife let go her hold.
"That is an insult to you and to me, Cicily. It is an insult I cannot I will not permit." It was evident to Cicily that she had carried the war in this direction far enough; she hastened her retreat. "Oh, I didn't say that you were in love with another woman," she explained, with an excellent affectation of carelessness. "For that matter, I know very well that you're not."
"All men are that way. My dear, your Uncle Jim mumbles woolens even during Dog Days. No, you mustn't take things so seriously, Cicily. You are not the only wife who has to suffer in this way. You are not the only one who was ever lonesome. Your case isn't unusual more pity! It's the case of almost every wife whose husband wins in this frightful battle with business.
"What was your point of order?" Cicily interrupted, blandly. "Why, well well that is, I've forgotten it now. But it was very big!" The presiding officer's sense of humor ran away with her discretion. "The chair," she announced gravely, "regrets exceedingly that the member found her point of order too big to raise." It was Mrs. Delancy who, after her usual fashion, strove to restore peace, as Mrs.
Did Adam have a business when he married? Huh! There! No man could answer that!" Cicily paused in triumph, and, in the elation wrought by developing a successful argument, turned luminous eyes on her aunt, while her red lips bent into the daintiest of smiles. Mrs.
So, this was the ghastly explanation of the change: The man was a bigamist! The distraught woman had hardly ears for the words her niece was speaking. "Yes," Cicily said, after a long, mournful pause, "besides me, Charles has married " She paused, one foot in a dainty satin slipper beating angrily on the white fur of the rug. "What woman?" Mrs. Delancy demanded, with wrathful curiosity.
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