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She led the way to her studio, ignoring the silly chatter of the man following her upstairs, and by the time he had fairly got himself seated she was coolly master of herself. "Just ran in to give you the great news." "To wit?" "Why, don't you know? The Philharmonic thing is settled. You've got it." Iola looked blank. "Why, haven't you heard that the Duff Charringtons have surrendered?"
All the women, Jean making no exception to any help now, rushed to carry the beds and blankets to the garret. Just as Mr. Duff entered the stable from the nearer end, the opposite gable fell out with a great splash, letting in the wide level vision of turbidly raging waters, fading into the obscurity of the wind-driven rain.
I always meant to hunt them up some time, they being my nearest kith and kin. Well, with what I already had, and with what Bob has written me, I know these facts." He paused, pulled a small notebook from his pocket, and consulted it. "There are two sons and a daughter, children of Rufus Blaisdell. Rufus died years ago, and his widow married a man by the name of Duff. But she's dead now.
Frank telephoned him that he would have gone, too, if he had not had so much to do at the store. Mr. Smith seemed pleased at all this attention he seemed, indeed, quite touched; but he seemed also embarrassed in fact, he seemed often embarrassed during those last few days at Hillerton. Miss Maggie Duff did not go to the station to see Mr. Smith off.
The Bible had been in the Blaisdell family for generations, and it was full of valuable names and dates. He began at once to copy them. Mr. Duff, on the other side of the table, was arranging into piles the papers before him. He complained Of the draft, and Miss Maggie shut the window. He said then that he didn't mean he wanted to suffocate, and she opened the one on the other side.
"I may be able to ascertain as soon as I have elbow room," replied Jan. "Suppose you give it me. Mrs. Duff may stop, but nobody else." Jan's easy words carried authority in their tone, and the company turned tail and began to file out. "Couldn't you do with me in, as well as his mother, sir?" asked Susan Peckaby. "I was here when he came in, I was; and I knowed what it was a'most afore he spoke.
The party went to the Southern Hotel, where the great Duff Brown was very well known, and indeed was a man of so much importance that even the office clerk was respectful to him. He might have respected in him also a certain vulgar swagger and insolence of money, which the clerk greatly admired.
Do you know Grandpa Duff?" "No, my b-boy." Mr. Smith was choking over a cough. "He's sick. He's got a chronic grouch, ma says. Do you know what that is?" "I I have heard of them." "What are they? Anything like chronic rheumatism? I know what chronic means. It means it keeps goin' without stoppin' the rheumatism, I mean, not the folks that's got it. THEY don't go at all, sometimes. Old Dr.
According to the custom of the time, which would have deemed the questioning a guest as to his name and family a breach of all the rules of chivalry and hospitality, he remained unknown. "Men call me Sir Robert, though I have still my spurs to win," he had once said, laughingly, to Lady Isabella and her kinsman, Sir Malise Duff, "but I would not proclaim my birth till I may bring it honor."
A groom mounted the other, and once more a start was made, but they had not gone more than a few steps, when the groom's horse fell heavily, and rolled over on its side, pinning the unfortunate man beneath him. There was a shriek of agony. In an instant Duff was off his horse and at the head of the fallen animal. "Medical officer here!" he shouted. "Now then, two of you men.
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