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Updated: June 22, 2025
Every day Darrie received her two, three, even four letters from him, couched in the most beautiful literary phraseology ... and each letter invariably held a sonnet ... and that, too, of an amazingly high standard of poetic excellence, considering the number Mallows was dashing off every day ... many of them were quite lovely with memorable phrase, deft turn of fancy or thought.
"That here we are and here we intend to abide, on these principles no matter what the rest of the world does or says or thinks." "I admit, Johnnie, that that would be the ideal way, but " interrupted Darrie "But nothing I'm tired of sneaking around, hiding from grocers and butcher boys, when everybody knows
"You have the makings of a fine fanatic in you ... in the early Christian era you would have been a church martyr." I held immediate consultation with Darrie and Hildreth and they were both scared blue ... but they were game, too. Darrie, however, unfolded a principle of strategy which I put into immediate effect ... she advised me to try a bluff first.
"He made me cry, he acted so pathetic ... he seemed like a motherless little boy that needed a woman's love and protection." "Darrie, why don't you marry him?" "Now you're trying to do with me as he tried to do with Ruth and you ... marry him ... no ... I'm I think I'm in love with 'Gene Mallows."
You'll be falling in love with Penton Baxter's wife yet!" Our talk was halted by Darrie's re-appearance. Hildreth came furtively back, too, from the little cottage, like a guilty child. She apologized to Darrie, and her apology was accepted, and, in a few minutes we were talking ahead as gaily as before....
You're not afraid, are you?" "To tell the truth I am, very much afraid." "You and Hildreth and Darrie would best take the three o'clock train back to New York then." "I haven't the least intention of doing that." "What are you going to do?" " just let them come." "You won't fight?" "As long as I'm alive." "You just said you were afraid."
Penton recalled Daniel to the city.... Afraid now that the papers might locate him with us.... We had a few warm mid-days of glorious sunshine still, and I often persuaded Darrie and Hildreth to take nude sunbaths with me back of the house ... which we enjoyed on outspread blankets, ever keeping a weather eye for intruders.... As we lay in the sun we read poetry aloud.
Each evening, by the open fire, I read aloud from the poets ... or Darrie or Hildreth did ... happy evenings by fire-light, that shall always live pleasantly in my memory.... We had but few disagreements, and those trifling ones. Darrie was herself in the midst of a romantic courtship.
We saw Darrie standing at the top of the stairs, her eyes luminous and wide with emotion. She stood, rosy-bodied, in her night-dress, which was transparent in the light of the lamp she carried.... "Johnnie's here, too!" warned Hildreth. "Oh!" cried Darrie, and turned back, to re-appear in her kimono. "I'm sorry we waked you up. But I knocked that infernal basin down off the sink."
" beg pardon," he ventured, "but I'm sorry for you two children ... oh, yes, I know all about you ... everybody knows ... and I wish you good luck." Darrie stayed over for the night, after Hildreth left, in order to see to packing the latter's clothes in her trunk ... Hildreth had been too upset to tend to the packing.... The next day Darrie left, too.
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