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And as she spoke those words of much tenderness I again bent over her hand in salutation because I could give forth no words from my throat. "Sue, you are the real sweet thing and now notice me a bit, will you?" said my fine Mr. Buzz Clendenning with both emotion and a teasing in his voice. "I know I haven't got French manners and don't look like L'Aiglon, but I'm an affectionate rough jewel."
They had, indeed, been years of intense suffering, full of privations, self-denial, and disappointments, not only in his New York home but in Kennedy Square, whenever at long intervals he had gone back to the old house to cheer its inmates in their loneliness a loneliness relieved only by the loyalty of old Malachi and Hannah and the affection and sympathy of their immediate relatives and of such close friends as Amos Cobb, who had never left his post, Miss Clendenning, Dr.
"Come over and sit by me, dear, while the gentlemen rest." Miss Clendenning picked up her white silk mits and fan lying beside the candles, and moved toward the fireplace.
"The doctor may have been detained," Miss Clendenning answered. "There is much sickness in town." For a time neither spoke. Only the low muttering of the fire could be heard, or the turning of some restless coal.
Nathan Gill and Max linger were expected, and Miss Lavinia Clendenning, completing with Richard a quartette for 'cello, flute, piano, and violin, for which Unger had arranged Beethoven's Overture to "Fidelio." Nathan, of course, arrived first.
There was a positiveness now in her intonations. "Yes, he did, with all his heart. His mother came between us." Again silence fell on the room. Margaret would not look at Miss Clendenning. The little old maid had suddenly opened the windows of her heart, but whether to let a long-caged sorrow out or some friendly sympathy in, she could not tell. "May I know about it!"
These days the Governor loses no chance to honor his Secretary of State for for political reasons," and as he spoke that good Mr. Clendenning looked at the wheel for steering, and I could see that there was deep concern in his eyes. "Is it that that trouble of mules, Monsieur Clendenning?"
We have followed our little invalid that's what we call you over many a league, and may make his acquaintance at last. Ralph Clendenning, at your service! "I shrank menacingly from him, and counted the dull throbs of my heart. "'What! timid! he said; 'and with so old a friend? I never met you, indeed, but then I have talked of you so often that you have grown to be quite a brother.
Instinctively she stopped short before the disloyal thought could form itself in her brain, straightened herself in her chair, and closed her lips tight. The music ceased; Nathan laid his flute on the piano; Unger rose. from his seat, and Richard turned to talk to Miss Clendenning.
"'Fore God, yes, sir!" "Look after him, Cato. He'll be about considerable." "Dat I will Mas' Henry's boy!" "No lobbying dimity chasing him, Cato!" "Yes, sir; I understands, sir." "Is the Governor ready for me?" "Yes, sir, you's to go right in, Mas' Robert. Mr. Clendenning is with him jest now, but he'll be out in a turkey's call of time.
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