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The doctor from Englewood came very soon, and I went up to see the sick girl with him. Halsey had gone to supervise the fitting of the car with blankets and pillows, and Gertrude was opening and airing Louise's own rooms at the house. Her private sitting-room, bedroom and dressing-room were as they had been when we came.
"Is she do you mean she's back?" enquired Ravenslee, sitting up. "Yes, she didn't stay at Englewood; she's down-stairs, doctoring Tony's kid." "But what will she think of all these confounded messes?" "Messes!" cried Spike indignantly. "Cheese it, Geoff look at that turk'!" "But do you think she'll mind?" enquired Ravenslee uneasily. "Mind?" said Spike, staring. "Not on your life why should she?
There with his arm about the soft, uncorsetted form of that glorious beauty, her own white forearm smooth and cool about his neck, he was thinking of the young lady of Englewood. Poor odalisque! Why cannot he speak to you and tell you? You would wash away those yellow stains with your own blood, if you thought he wished it. Forego tobacco?
She held up the card that had been presented after the service the evening before, and read: MR. JOHN HOPKINS, ENGLEWOOD, CHICAGO "If he comes with a proposition, don't accept it off-hand. Ask for a little while to consider." Belle put on her smartest frock that morning and pressed Jim's trousers and tied his necktie repeatedly till its form was right.
"First, because t' night she's away at Englewood makin' a dress for Mrs. Crawley as is very fond of her. An' second, because you ain't the man to ask a girl to marry him when he ain't got nothin' t' keep her on you know you ain't!" "Which brings us back to the undoubted fact that I must get a job at once." "Hm!" said, Mrs.
Thus happy in comradeship, they sailed away to southward, down the blue wonder of the river, flanked by headlands, wooded heights, crags, cliffs and Palisades, now all alike deserted. Noon found them opposite the fluted columns of gray granite that once had borne aloft the suburbs of Englewood.
Stunned by this body-blow, "Tiger" first swore with hideous blasphemies that caused his valet to retreat precipitately from the famous, nymph-frieze bedchamber; then ordered drink, then walked the floor a while in a violent passion; and finally knit up his decision. "By God!" he swore, shaking his fist in the direction of Englewood. "She's balky, eh? She won't, eh? But I say she will!
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