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"Do you blame her?" "No." "Well, I don't see how he was to blame." "The transaction was a little irregular, but it was highly creditable to all parties concerned." Mrs. Elmore grew still meeker under this irony. Indignation and censure she would have known how to meet; but his quiet perplexed her: she did not know what might not be coming.
"And," added Elmore, I am confirmed in this belief by discovering afterwards from a tradesman in York who had seen my cousin's jewels that those I had trusted to Mr. Clarke's hands were more valuable than I had imagined them, and therefore it was probably worth his while to make off with them as quietly as possible.
You can't say that she has thrown the brunt of this affair upon you, Owen." "I am not so sure of that," sighed Elmore. "I think I suffer less when I do it than when I see it. It's horrible." "He deserved it, every bit," returned his wife. "Oh, I dare say," Elmore granted. "But the sight even of justice isn't pleasant, I find." "I don't understand you, Owen.
Elmore, the partner of his historical researches; he read his notes to both of them now; and when his wife was prevented from accompanying him, he went with Lily alone to visit the scenes of such events as his researches concerned, and to fill his mind with the local color which he believed would give life and character to his studies of the past.
Elmore, and his anxiety forcing itself to his countenance, "that is indeed the substance of my business with you; and so important will be any information you can give me that I shall esteem it a " "Not a very great favour, eh? not very great?" "Yes, indeed, a very great obligation."
The letter closed with a cordial expression of the desire of Elmore's old friends to have him once more in their midst, at the close of labors which they were sure would do credit to the good old university and to the whole city of Patmos. Elmore read this letter at breakfast, and silently handed it to his wife: they were alone, for Lily, as now often happened, had not yet risen.
Every loyal American who went abroad during the first years of our great war felt bound to make himself some excuse for turning his back on his country in the hour of her trouble. But when Owen Elmore sailed, no one else seemed to think that he needed excuse.
Well, Sir, I will yield to you in the one, and you must yield to me in the other: I will open the letter, and you shall dine here, and be introduced to Mrs. Elmore; What is your opinion of the modern method of folding letters? I but I see you are impatient." Here Mr. Elmore at length broke the seal; and to Walter's great joy fairly read the contents within. "Oh!
"Very well," said Elmore, "if that is the last of him, I ask nothing better. I certainly have no wish to take any steps in the matter." But he went out of the house very unhappy and greatly perplexed.
Elmore had found it impossible to get a pair of fine shoes finished until after the ball; a dress which Lily had ordered could not be made; their laundress had given notice that for the present all fluting and quilling was out of the question; one already heard that the chief Venetian perruquier and his assistants were engaged for every moment of the forty-eight hours before the ball, and that whoever had him now must sit up with her hair dressed for two nights at least.
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