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He sat silent with her at the table after their girls had left them alone, and seeing that he did not mean to speak, she began to explain why Irene had come home, and to praise her. "Yes, she done right," said Lapham. "It was time for her to come," he added gently. Then he was silent again, and his wife told him of Corey's having been there, and of his father's and mother's calling.
He remembered with terror the dinner at Corey's where he had disgraced and betrayed himself, and if he went into this thing at all, he was going into it sober. "I can't stop," he said, "I must be going." "But you haven't given us an answer yet, Mr. Lapham," said the first Englishman with a successful show of dignified surprise. "The only answer I can give you now is, NO," said Lapham.
Some one had picked it deftly out of Corey's hand during the scuffle, and now passed it up to Hose. "Here, Frenchy, take yer long-necked, pot-bellied music-gourd. And I want you boys to understand, ef any one teches that fiddle ag'in, I'll knock hell out 'n him." So the recording angel dropped another tear upon the record of Hosea Ransom, and the books were closed for the night.
She introduced Lemuel to them, and after a few moments of high civility and distance they treated him familiarly, as Statira's beau. Their talk, after that he was now used to, was flat and foolish, and their pert ease incensed him. He came away bruised and burning, and feeling himself unfit to breathe the refined and gentle air to which he returned in Mr. Corey's presence.
The room at the new Mother Corey's an unkempt old building near the edge of the dome proved to be livable, though it was a shock to see Mother Corey himself in a decent suit, and using perfume. The beat was in a shabby section where clerks and skilled laborers worked.
She didn't make one feel at all as if she'd bought me, and thought she'd given too much; and mother held up her head as if she were all wool and a yard wide, and she would just like to have anybody deny it." In a few touches of mimicry she dashed off a sketch of the scene: her mother's trepidation, and Mrs. Corey's well-bred repose and polite scrutiny of them both.
This may be merely a flight of fancy, such as poets are very fond of, I am told. I will now read Mrs. Corey's contribution: "There once was a Debating Club, exceeding wise and great; On grave and abstruse questions it would eagerly debate.
And now he's got an idea that he can take hold of the paint and push it in other countries push it in Mexico and push it in South America. He's a splendid Spanish scholar," this was Lapham's version of Corey's modest claim to a smattering of the language, "and he's been among the natives enough to know their ways. And he believes in the paint," added the Colonel.
Only on the day of Giles Corey's execution had the prevailing excitement attending that event, and which naturally affected the constables and jailers, made him raging. To pass the constable's inspection, as well as for his own safety, the jailer had chained him; but his voice could be heard ringing through the closed door of his cell at intervals from morning till evening.
Sewell had laid before his wife the case of the Laphams after they came to consult with him about Corey's proposal to Penelope, for he wished to be confirmed in his belief that he had advised them soundly; but he had not given her their names, and he had not known Corey's himself.
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