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The brilliant birds and the little monkeys had become accustomed to their new acquaintances, and as they had evidently never seen human beings before they presently, after their first fright had worn off, approached closer and closer, impelled by that strange curiosity which dominates the wild creatures of the forest and the jungle and the plain, so that within the first month several of the birds had gone so far as even to accept morsels of food from the friendly hands of the Claytons.
Moreover, the Claytons did not often entertain a large company, but when they did, it was on a scale commensurate with their means and position, and to be present on such an occasion was a thing to remember and to talk about. And, most important consideration of all, some remarks dropped by members of the Clayton family had given rise to the rumor that the Congressman was seeking a wife.
"I suppose," she went on, "you don't know that Wallace has been getting Gerald out of trouble?" "Are you sure of that?" "Yes. I'll tell you what I know. Wallace saw Gerald in London he told us that and we all know that Gerald couldn't pay his debts a little while ago. You remember he came down to Kendall and went on and stayed the next night with the Claytons.
And yet those Ingenious Men are mistaken, that think a Diamond must be foul and cloudy, as Mr. Claytons was, to be fit for Shining; for as we could bring some such to afford a Glimmering Light, so with some clear and excellent Diamonds, we could do the like.
Within the little building a light was burning, for Clayton had found an unopened tin of oil which had stood intact for twenty years, a part of the supplies left with the Claytons by Black Michael. The lamps also were still useable, and thus the interior of the cabin appeared as bright as day to the astonished Tarzan. He had often wondered at the exact purpose of the lamps.
A few days later Father Dominic called at the Claytons. "Well, children," he asked, incidentally, "have you done anything to please the Blessed Virgin during the past month?" Abby and Larry were silent, but their mother kindly answered: "I think they have tried, Father Dominic. And as for your lovely May-Day gift, the presence of the statue seems to have drawn down a blessing upon the house."
Ever as they fled they cast fearful glances back of them, and finally they stopped near Clayton jabbering excitedly to him as though to warn him of approaching danger. At last he saw it, the thing the little monkeys so feared the man-brute of which the Claytons had caught occasional fleeting glimpses.
Help a man up, and teach him to use his feet, so that he can walk alone. This is true benevolence. "ARE you going to call upon Mrs. Clayton and her daughters, Mrs. Marygold?" asked a neighbor, alluding to a family that had just moved into Sycamore Row. "No, indeed, Mrs. Lemmington, that I am not. I don't visit everybody." "I thought the Claytons were a very respectable family," remarked Mrs.
The Colonel had come in while they were talking, and had bade them good- night and gone up to bed. Girl as she was, Sue already possessed that subtle power of unconscious coquetry which has distinguished all the other Sue Claytons of all the other Kennedy Squares the South over since the days of Pocahontas.
Let him go, and come back in a better temper set transparent; so then, backed by the violet, you know, they will imitate dewdrops to the life." "Charming! Why not let Olivier do it for you, as poor Baldwin cannot?" "Because Olivier works for the Claytons, and we should have that Emily Clayton out as my double; and as we visit the same houses "
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