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If, for instance, as the front door was opened the aroma was one of hot coffee and the dry smell of fresh wafer-biscuit mingled with those of a certain brand of sherry, then it was always to be plain whist in the parlor, with perhaps only Colonel Clayton and Miss Clendenning or some one of the old ladies of the neighborhood, to hold hands in a rubber.
Margaret looked at the post-mark, and then at the little oval of violet wax bearing the crest of the Clendennings granted in the time of Queen Elizabeth for distinguished services to the Throne and after she had read it to her mother, and had shown the seal to her father, who had put on his glasses, scanned it closely, and tossed it back to her with a dry laugh, and after she had talked it all over with John, who said it was certainly very kind of the woman, and that Oliver's people were evidently "nobs," but, of course, Madge couldn't go, not knowing any of them, Margaret took a sheet of plain white paper from her desk, thanked Miss Clendenning for her kind thought of her, and declined the honor in a firm, round hand.
His only relief while in these moods was to again seize his pen and pour out his heart to his mother or to his father, or to Miss Clendenning or old Mr. Crocker. Occasionally he would write to Sue not often for that volatile young lady had so far forgotten Oliver as to leave his letters unanswered for weeks at a time.
They live in the most beautiful valley you ever saw." Miss Clendenning was watching him closely. She caught a look that his mother had missed. "Is she pretty, Ollie?" asked Miss Lavinia. "She is better than pretty. You would not say the Milo was pretty, would you? There is too much in her for prettiness." "And are the others like her?"
Wallace detected the movement he knew its cause and passed out of the sick chamber to where Oliver stood with Miss Clendenning. "Better go down, Oliver, and see that the hot water is sent up right away," he said. "Poor old Hannah seems to have lost her head." "Has there been any further change, Doctor!" Oliver asked, as he started for the stairs. "No, not since you went. He is holding his own.
I cannot tell to my Uncle, the General Robert, that it is that I, a woman of honor, have planned for myself, a man of dishonor, to betray a woman into his hands, and I shall receive from him what that Buzz Clendenning calls to be a 'dressing down. But I must go to send to Madam Delilah now the great Gouverneur of the State of Harpeth and for what she does to him that is unholy she will answer to Robert Carruthers or or Roberta, Marquise of Grez and Bye."
Buzz Clendenning, resides that Mademoiselle Susan of so much loveliness. And it is of a truth that I discovered that loveliness to be as great as was told to me by her true lover. When I raised my head from the kiss of presentation I gave to her hand I looked into very deep and very wonderful girl eyes that had in their depths tears that were for a sympathy for me, I knew.
She was balancing the tongs in her hand now, her eyes still on the fire. She had not looked at Margaret once. "What happened then?" Miss Clendenning leaned forward, spread the tongs in her little hands, lifted an ember and tucked it closer to its neighbor. The charred mass crumbled at the touch and fell into a heap of broken coals. "I am a Clendenning, my dear; that is all," she answered, slowly.
Then, with Richard leading, the four one of the guests a 'cellist of distinction took Max Unger's place began Max's arrangement of the overture to "Fidelio"; the one Richard and Nathan had played so often together in the old parlor in Kennedy Square, with Miss Clendenning and Unger: an arrangement which had now become known to most musical amateurs.
"Shake hands, boys; don't stand looking at each other like young puppies," said my Uncle, the General Robert, as he clapped his hand on the back of the Mr. Buzz Clendenning. "You don't have to fight it out. Your fathers licked each other week about for twenty years." "Can't I even ask him to take off his coat once, General?" answered that Mr.
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