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The village talked of her and her commander for a few days and then forgot them both. Only at the old home by the landing and at the parsonage were they remembered. Summer was over, autumn came, passed, and it was winter John Ellery's first winter in Trumet. Fish weirs were taken up, the bay filled with ice, the packet ceased to run, and the village settled down to hibernate until spring.
"I like a great many more kinds of people than you do, Norris. You are narrow-minded. You want to associate only with the good and true and bathed." "Oh, I wish well to the majority of the race, but there are some that I do not care to eat with." Something in Ellery's voice made his friend turn and survey him. "You look tired. You're working too hard.
Even Captain Elkanah did not try to oppose the general opinion; "although I cannot but feel," he said, "that Mr. Ellery's course was rash and that he should have considered us and our interest in his welfare before "
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."
Yet Ellery's brain whirled to think how swiftly and by what simple means he might have toppled her slowly-ripening friendship into the mire. Ellery's imagination piled superlatives on every act and expression of his lady. If she looked light disapproval, it was worse than another's scorn.
Confound it, man! didn't you know any better? Weren't you afraid?" His tone rasped Ellery's shaken nerves. "Of course I was," he snapped irritably. "I'm not an idiot." "Humph! Well, all right; I beg your pardon. But you oughtn't to have done it. Now you'll have to be quarantined. And who in thunder I can get to stay with me in this case is more than I know.
Then he stood transfixed at the vision that met his sight, for a very blond and fuzzy head was bent over Ellery's desk and a very startled pair of blue eyes was raised to meet his own. There stood a rosebud dressed in gray. Is there anything more demure and innocent than a pinky girl in a mousy gown? Dick's hat came off and a deferential look replaced the careless one.
The minister had listened eagerly to this defense of the man whom he had been led to consider his arch enemy. It was given with spirit and the girl's head was uplifted and her eyes flashed as she spoke. Ellery's next remark was uttered without premeditation. Really, he was thinking aloud. "So you went away to school?" he mused. "That is why "
So he plunged cheerfully into an animated discussion of the new tide in civic politics, while Norris dully and conscientiously tried to bear up his end. Ellery's eyes, however, as well as the thoughts behind those superficial thoughts that guided his words, were absorbed in the other side of the room, where Miss Elton canvassed with her mother the merits of various embroidery silks.
Ellery's sermons might be more orthodox? 'Yes, says I, 'they might be, but what a mercy 'tis they ain't. He, he, he! I kind of like to poke Elkanah in the shirt front once in a while, just to hear it crackle. Say, Keziah, you don't think the minister and Annabel are " "No," was the emphatic interruption; "I know they ain't; he ain't, anyway." "Good!
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