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Ellery's intellectual sermons, and especially what a treat it had been to have him as a guest. "You must dine here every Sunday," she said. "It will be no trouble at all, and if you say no, I shall feel that it is because you don't want to see me FATHER and me, of course, I mean." The minister didn't accept this pressing invitation; on the other hand, he could not refuse it absolutely.
The gloom and mystery were having their effect, even on Mr. Ellery's nerves. His answer also was given in a tense whisper, but with some irritation. "Hush!" he murmured. "Let go of my wrist. You've pinched it black and blue. Which room did you leave her in? Show me at once."
The dining room was dark and gloomy. She lighted the lamp. Then she heard a door open and Ellery's voice, as he called down the stairs. "Who is it?" he demanded. "Mrs. Coffin?" She was startled. "Yes," she said softly, after a moment. "Yes, Mr. Ellery, it's me. What are you doin' awake at such an hour's this?" "Yes, I'm awake. I couldn't sleep well to-night, somehow.
She knew mighty well I couldn't get out of the window, 'cause it won't open no further'n 'tis now. I wa'n't never so provoked in my life. 'Tain't no way to treat your own brother, lockin' him up like a young one; now, is it?" Ellery's reply was not made immediately. He had heard numerous stories concerning this odd household, some of which seemed too absurd for belief.
You defy us, eh?" and with every question the bully twisted my arm till I almost screamed with the pain. "Don't be a ninny," says Cludde. "What's a few apples! Why, old Ellery's trees are loaded with 'em." Vetch's grip somewhat relaxed while Cludde was speaking, and, seizing the opportunity, I wrenched my arm away with a sudden movement and took to my heels.
She stepped lightly forward under Dick's guidance, took Ellery's outstretched hands and sprang to the shore, where a kind of throne was built for her against a prostrate log, all this help not because it was necessary, but as the appropriate pomp of royalty.
Mr. Ellery's catechism began. Before it was over Keziah opened the door to admit Miss Pepper and her brother. "Kyan" was nervous and embarrassed in the housekeeper's presence. Lavinia was a glacier, moving majestically and freezing as it moved. Keziah, however, was not even touched by the frost; she greeted the pair cordially, and begged them to "take off their things."
You've always been telling me how much I did for you. You've done more for me to-night than I ever dreamed of doing for you." Ellery's face cleared. They stood with clasped hands, and there seemed no need of further explanations or assurances. Norris drew a long breath of relief. "So we are friends still?" asked Dick. "Till the Judgment Day and beyond."
The evanescent spray was Ellery's; and his, too, the lumps of golden thought that lay glimmering in the fountain's bed and brightened both our faces by the reflection. Could he have drawn out that virgin gold, and stamped it with the mint-mark that alone gives currency, the world might have had the profit, and he the fame. My mind was the richer merely by the knowledge that it was there.
He ordered a cocktail, but the uncle contented himself with the thin native claret he invariably drank. He glanced with irritated disapproval at the cocktail, and on to his nephew's face. Kit saw a lecture gathering. "I've only a minute," he announced hastily. "I've got to run and take in that Keith exhibition at Ellery's and do half a column on it."
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