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That automatic portion of his brain and spinal column which, physiologists assert, performs three fourths of a man's actions and conditions nine tenths of his volitions that part of Peter wouldn't consider it. It began to get jumpy and scatter havoc in Peter's thoughts at the mere suggestion of not seeing Cissie. Imperceptibly this radical left wing of his emotions speeded up his meal, again.
There were several single ladies: one who seemed to have nothing in this world to do but to come down to her meals, and another a physician who had not been able, in embracing the medical profession, to deny herself the girlish pleasure of her pet name, and was lettered in the list of guests in the entry as Dr. Cissie Bluff.
Dropped in to ask if you 'll be ready by tomorrow or next day." The girl gasped. "But, Peter " Peter drew a chair beside her in a serious argumentative mood. "Yes I think we ought to get married at once. No reason why we shouldn't get it over with Why, what's the matter?" "So soon after your mother's death, Peter?" "It's to get away from Hooker's Bend, Cissie to get you away.
It might very well be there was a difference between the actual cerebral and nervous structure of a married man and that of a single man. At any rate, after these reflections, Peter now felt sure that marriage would cure him of his mission; but how had Cissie known it? How had she struck out so involved a theory, one might say, in the toss of a head?
'Cissie said she'd come for me if I was late. You'd better stay in and be dutiful. 'I shall offer to play duets with mother. Don't you be long. Let's try that chorus for the Operatic before supper. That night, after the girls had kissed them and gone to bed, John and Leonora remained alone together in the drawing-room.
Parson Ranson thought it would be bad luck for a child to be born in jail. Wince Washington, who had been in jail a number of times, suggested that they bail Cissie out by signing their names to a paper. He had been set free by this means once or twice. Sally, Nan's little sister, observed tartly that if Cissie hadn't acted so, she wouldn't have been in jail.
It was evidently something which required great secrecy, for Enid glanced carefully round to see whether anyone was watching her; then, as nobody except Patty appeared to be looking, she drew away a fold of her handkerchief, cautiously opened the little box, and out hopped a huge grasshopper, which bounded straight on to Cissie Gardiner's blouse.
When he had cleared his table and placed his chair beside it, he wandered over to his tall west window and stood looking up the street through the brilliant sunshine, toward the Arkwright home. No one was in sight. In Hooker's Bend every one dines precisely at twelve, and at that hour the streets are empty. It would be some time before Cissie came back down the street on her way to Niggertown.
It's the first thirty minutes of your time I've asked in five years, Kess is that little enough? Let Cissie show Keokuk the blouses till we get back. It's something, Kess, I can't put off. Kess, please!" Her face was so close to him and so eager that he turned to back out. "Wait for me at the Thirty-first Street entrance," he said, "and I'll shoot you across to Rinehardt's."
Patty was so fascinated by gazing at it, and wondering where its next leap would take it, that she started when Miss Rowe asked her a question, and for once failed with her answer. "Ad, ante," she began, but could get no further. Her eyes were glued to Cissie's blouse, and Cissie, noticing she was the cause of Patty's hesitation, looked down at her sleeve, and sprang up with a scream.
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