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She heard a bird singing far down in the swamp; she heard the soft raising of a window and the closing of a door. And then great God in heaven! must she live forever in this agony? and then, she heard the door bang and Mr. Cresswell's gruff voice "Well, where is he? he isn't in there!" Mary Cresswell felt that something was giving way within.
His business methods were such as a Cresswell could never stoop to; but he was a man of his word, and Colonel Cresswell's correspondence with Mr. Easterly opened his eyes to the beneficent ideals of Northern capital. At the same time he could not consider the Easterlys and the Taylors and such folk as the social equals of the Cresswells, and his prejudice on this score must still be reckoned with.
Then there's a new young lawyer who wants Harry Cresswell's seat in Congress; he don't know much law, I'm afraid; but what he don't know of this case I think I do. I'll get his advice and then I mean to conduct the case myself," Zora calmly concluded. "Without a lawyer!" Bles Alwyn stared his amazement. "Without a lawyer in court." "Zora! That would be foolish!" "Is it? Let's think.
She has been going to this man Father Cresswell's meetings. She is talking about our duty, about making the best of one another." Pauline was amazed. Certainly no thought of this kind had ever entered into her head. "Do you mean," she said, "that Mary wants to give up her silly little flirtations, and turn serious?" "That is exactly what she says," Rochester answered.
"Ticker says six and three-fourths." Cresswell sat down abruptly opposite Taylor, looking at him fixedly. "That last drop means liabilities of a hundred thousand to us," he said slowly. "Exactly," Taylor blandly admitted. Beads of sweat gathered on Cresswell's forehead. He looked at the scrawny iron man opposite, who had already forgotten his presence.
No sooner was Harry Cresswell's telegram at hand than he hastened back from Savannah, struck across country, and the week after his sister's ride found him striding up the carriage-way of the Cresswell home. John Taylor had prospered since summer. The cotton manufacturers' combine was all but a fact; Mr.
She reached the back landing just in time to see Colonel Cresswell's head rising up the front staircase. With a quick bound she almost fell into the first room at the top of the stairs. Bles Alwyn had hurried through his dinner duties and hastened to the Oaks. The questions, the doubts, the uncertainty within him were clamoring for utterance. How much had Mrs. Cresswell ever known of Zora?
Leonard and others of their standard not only wouldn't go driving alone with the gentlemen from town, but declined to go to Cresswell's with anybody. And Mrs. Wright's bonny face flushed and her eyes flashed when she said why. As to what the ladies of the th did out at Russell, that was not her business. "Nevertheless," said Mrs. Wright, "I'll warrant you that Mrs. Stannard, or Mrs.
Cresswell forgot two pitfalls: the cleft between the old Southern aristocracy and the pushing new Southerners; and above all, her own Northern birth and presumably pro-Negro sympathies. What Mrs. Cresswell forgot Mrs. Vanderpool sensed unerringly. She had heard with uneasiness of Cresswell's renewed candidacy for the Paris ambassadorship, and she set herself to block it. She had worked hard.
Only he lacked power. This scarcely interfered with the pleasure he could give in a drawing-room, and to-night both Levillier and Julian were rather in a mood for supreme delicacy than for great passion. They listened with silent pleasure for a time. Then Levillier said: "Do you remark how wonderfully the timbre of Cresswell's voice expresses the timbre of his mind? The parallel is exact."
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