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Now he used, though not getting on with the Curtises, to be most successful with the second-rate people; but he has managed to offend half of them during this unhappy mania, which, of course, they all resent as mercenary, and how he is ever to win them back I don't know. After all, curatocult is a shallow motive Rachel Curtis might triumph!"
Here were gathered many times the Posts, Hallowells, DeGarmos, Willises, Burtises, Kedzies, Fishes, Curtises, Stebbins, Asa Anthonys, all Quakers who had left the society on account of their anti-slavery principles and were leaders in the abolition and woman's rights movements. Every one of these Sunday meetings was equal to a convention.
Indignant at the hack estimation in which his father had been held, the son, far more justly viewing both the dignity and duty of his office, was resolved to be respected; but bred up in second rate society, had neither weight, talent, nor manners to veil his aggressive self-assertion, and he was at this time especially trying to the Curtises.
"So this is the young lady who wouldn't stop at my house but went to Sam Curtis' to stay all night," he said, holding in the mare and looking down at Ruth. "And you haven't been past the gate with the green eyes since?" "No, sir," Ruth said, timidly. "I have never even been to town." "No. Or you would not have failed to see the Curtises again. At least, I hope you'll see them.
Naturally, the preoccupation of the two Curtises threw the burden of talk upon the others. Doctor Nelson gave himself up to his hostess, and Morton found Edith's ardors, upon every subject under heaven, most diverting; he teased her and baited her, and her eyes grew more shining, and her cheeks pinker, and her gayety more contagious with every repartee she flung back at him. Mrs.
Child who was a frequent visitor; but her deportment was always maidenly and lady-like." The engagement happened in this wise. Mr. Child had been admitted to the bar and had opened an office in Boston. One evening about nine o'clock he rode out to Watertown on horseback and called at the Curtises' where Miss Francis then was. "My mother, who believed the denouement had come," says Mr.
"And the room has exactly the old geranium scent!" "I think the Curtises must have brought half their greenhouse down. Do you remember the old oak-leaf geranium that you used to gather a leaf of whenever you passed our old conservatory?" "I have been wondering where the fragrance came from that made the likeness complete. I have smelt nothing like it since!"
They had been chatting there perhaps half an hour, when they were interrupted by the girl the Curtises kept to do "chores." "Please, Miss Nelly, there's a gentleman wants to see you." "Very well, tell him I will be there in a moment." When the girl was gone, Nelly suddenly exclaimed, rather regretfully, "How stupid of me, not to ask who it was!"
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