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This beard cried, almost clamoured, for picturesque accessories, and when Daffingdon went to a costume ball he generally wore a ruff and carried a rapier. All these things had their effect, and when people said, "How much?" and Daffingdon with unblinking serenity said, "So much," they quailed sometimes, but they never tried to beat him down.
"Or, 'The The Westward Star of Empire Illuminating the' " proceeded Daffingdon mistily, raising his eyes toward the electrolier. "Yes, yes," responded Virgilia quickly, by way of further encouragement. "Or or 'The Triumphal March of Progress through Our' " Daffingdon confusedly dipped the wrong end of the penholder into the big sprawling inkstand.
As Daffingdon walked thoughtfully down the quiet street a deep sense of gratitude stirred within him he felt himself prompted to the most chivalrous of acknowledgments.
Daffingdon bit at the end of the penholder and made a dog-ear on the topmost of the steel-gray sheets. "Come," said Virgilia. "Whatever follies may have begun to churn in their poor weak noddles, we will not draw upon the early pages of the local annals, we will not attempt to reconstruct the odious architecture of the primitive prairie town. Come; there are twelve large lunettes, you say?"
Daffingdon and Virgilia were bidden to the Gibbons dinner, along with the rest. "It's a sop," declared Virgilia; "it's to propitiate us. It's to make amends he knows he hasn't treated us fairly. Shall we go?" "He has treated us no worse than he has treated everybody else," said Dill, bent upon the preservation of his amour propre.
Stephen Giles pitied it; Daffingdon Dill, an influential member, and a painter not especially affiliated with the Circuit, derided it cruelly; Abner Joyce himself, when appealed to as a man and a brother by the disappointed farmer-artist, bleakly turned away. Not even the proprietors of the sales-galleries seemed willing to extend a welcome. Jared was puzzled and indignant.
Still, if you want to get up some drawings to show about how it would come out, and bring them around in a week or so...." Daffingdon groaned inwardly; after all, they were wedded to their own notion. He explained to them the unfairness of their proposal detailing the cost of models, the matter of draperies, the time required for study, the labours and difficulties of composition.
Richard had been impatient and resentful to begin with; now he became dogged and surly. She had come at the wrong time and about the wrong business. Virgilia had dismissed him with no gentle hand people had smiled over his discomfiture for a week. The memory of this still rankled. Why in the world should he exert himself for Daffingdon Dill? Let him exert himself for his brother then.
Daffingdon Dill was a newcomer, but he had taken hold of things in a pretty confident, competent fashion and had made more of an impression in one year than many of his confreres had made in five or ten. To begin with, he had unhesitatingly quartered himself in the most desirable building the town could boast.
"So much trouble," breathed Daffingdon; "so much effort; such an expense for costumes." "And if you want to enlarge the scheme," pursued Virgilia, waiving all considerations of trouble, effort and expense, "so as to include coining, money-changing and all that, why, think what you have then! The brokers at Corinth, the mensarii in the Roman Forum.
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