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Updated: June 7, 2025
Every step in the long series of changes which had led from its first state to its last had a profound and gratifying significance for the Emerys and its final condition, prosperous, modern, sophisticated, with the right kind of wood work in every room that showed, with the latest, most unobtrusively artistic effects in decoration, represented their culminating well-earned position in the inner circle of the best society of Endbury.
There hasn't been a tea-party given in Endbury since we were wearing pull-backs." The laugh was so good-natured that the Judge hoped for a favorable opening and ventured to say irrelevantly, as though reverting automatically to a subject always in his mind, "But, honest, Susie, can't we shave expenses down some? This winter is costing "
He said nothing, but as they emerged upon the long treeless road, stretching away over the flat country to where the lights of Endbury glowed tremulously through the rain, he looked at his companion with a quick intensity, as though it were the first time he had really seen her. It was that man's look which makes a woman's heart beat faster, even if she is as inexperienced as Lydia.
For all her aversion to the set forms of "society" as understood by Endbury, Lydia was fond of having people about her, "to try to get really acquainted with them" she said, and during that summer the Hollister veranda in the evening became a rendezvous for their Bellevue neighbors.
Won't anything, even the best, in Endbury be a come-down for her?" The slightly irritated impatience with which Mrs. Mortimer had listened to the first words of this speech gave way to a shrewd amusement. "You mean that you've put Lydia up on such a high plane to begin with that whichever way she goes will be a step down," she asked.
"She's been a plague spot in this town for years that lower-middle-class old Briton, with her beastly ideas of caste ever since she began sending out her daughter to preach her damnable gospel to defenseless Endbury homes." "Marius my dear!" chided Mrs. Sandworth "The Gospel damnable! You forget yourself!" The doctor did not laugh.
"There isn't an impression I'd be sorrier to give you," he said earnestly. "Perhaps the trouble is that you don't as yet know much about the life I've got out of." "I've lived in Endbury all my life," protested Lydia. "There may still be something for you to learn about the lives of its men," suggested her companion. "If you think it's so wrong, why don't you reform it?"
The "function had inaugurated a new era of cosmopolitan amplitude of social life in Endbury," was the ending of the lengthy paragraph that described the table decorations, the menu, the costume of the hostess, the names of the music-makers afterward. Lydia burst into a hysterical laugh. "Flora Burgess is too killing!" she cried.
Lydia yielded to his care for her with her sweet passivity, echoed his opinion about the details, and ran beside him down the driveway, to catch the next car to Endbury, with a singular light grace for a tall woman encumbered with long skirts. In spite of their haste, they missed the car and were obliged to wait for a quarter of an hour beside the tracks.
She cried out to herself, as she climbed the stairs heavily, that she could not stand it to have things happen to her so fast. If all Endbury days were going to be like this one She was for a moment brought to a standstill by a realization of depths within herself that she had not dreamed of.
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