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Easterfield, but that will not help you to know me, for I was not married when I knew your father." Olive's eyes sparkled as she took the two hands extended to her. "I don't remember you at all," she said, "but if you are the friend of my father and mother " "Then I am to be your friend, isn't it?" interrupted Mrs. Easterfield. "I hope so," answered Olive. "Now, then," said Mrs.
And, besides, that is not all I went to town for." "Oh," said his wife, "any more weddings?" "No," said Mr. Easterfield, helping himself to an easy chair. "You know I have lately been so much with nautical people I have acquired a taste for the sea." "I did not know it," said his wife; "but what of it?"
There is a connecting train, but I should have had to take it very early in the evening, so I saved time by hiring a carriage." "Saved time?" exclaimed Mrs. Easterfield. "I saved all the time from dinner until the Bartons went to bed, which would have been lost if I had taken the train. Besides, I like to travel in carriages.
One of the greatest joys of Miss Raleigh's life was to interfere in other people's business; and to do it under approval and with the feeling that it was her duty was a rare joy. The letter was to her husband, and Mrs. Easterfield was writing it because she was greatly troubled, and even frightened.
Why do you tell me that I am the only one of her suitors who would certainly be rejected if he offered himself?" Mrs. Easterfield dropped the long-stemmed dahlias she had been holding; and, turning her eyes full upon Lancaster, she said, "Because you are the only one of them toward whom she has no predilections whatever.
He admitted to himself that she was young and probably sensitive, but it was also true that he was sensitive, although old. Therefore, he was angry. Mrs. Easterfield was disturbed; she saw there was something wrong between Olive and her uncle, and she did not like it. She had invited Lancaster with an object, and she did not wish that other people's grievances should interfere with said object.
"I can not ask him," she said to herself, "to say this again every day before dinner. He hasn't the wit of Claude Locker, and would not be able to vary his remarks; but I can not blast his hopes too suddenly, for, if I do that, he will instantly go away, and it would not be treating Mrs. Easterfield properly if I were to break up her party without her knowledge. But I will talk to her about it.
No ditty of Latin origin, be it ever so melodious and fervid, could stand against such a wild storm of Anglo-Saxon vociferation. Every ahoy rang out as if sea captains were hailing each other in a gale! "What lungs he has" thought Mrs. Easterfield, as she put her hand over her mouth so that no one should hear her laugh.
"It is very hard for a girl such as I am," she continued, "to be alone in the world, and that is a very good reason for getting married as soon as I can." "And for being very careful whom you marry," interrupted Mr. Easterfield. "Of course," said she, "and I am trying very hard to be that. A little while ago I had a father with whom I expected to live and be happy, but that dream is over now.
Dick could not imagine why the captain said all this, and he flushed a little. "Sutton College?" said Mrs. Easterfield. "Then, of course, you know Professor Brent." "Oh, yes," said Lancaster. "He is our president." "I never met him," said she, "but he was a classmate of my husband, and I have often heard him speak of him. And now for my errand, Captain Asher.
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