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Some of them know no more how to do it than kittens would, or than Ruth Erskine knows how to call on the second stratum of society in her own church." Whereupon both pastor and visitor laughed. Dr. Dennis had heard of Ruth's attempt in that line. "We have to deal with very common-place human beings, instead of with angels. I think that is the trouble," Marion said, returning to the charge.
Erskine was in two places at once. The apology is indeed ‘a valuable acquisition.’ Gowrie and Cranstoun, and they alone, the apologist avers, were now permitted by James’s servants to enter the house. We know that many of James’s men were really battering at the locked door, and we know that others of Gowrie’s people, besides Cranstoun, entered the house, and were wounded in the scuffle.
But they did not come; and no one missed them. On the next day, Mr. Erskine called upon Mrs. Minturn and her daughter, as he intended leaving the city in the afternoon. "We looked for you all last evening," said Mrs. Minturn. "Why did you not call around?" "I was at a select party last night," replied the young man. "Were you, indeed?" "Yes. At Mr. Allender's. Do you know the family?"
"Then," continued Mary Erskine, "I thought that at the end of the twelve years I should be able to sell this house and the land around it for a hundred dollars, especially if I take good care of the buildings in the mean while." "And that makes your two thousand dollars," said Mrs. Bell. "Yes," replied Mary Erskine. "But suppose you are sick."
I am afraid you would be tempted to tell her it was none of her business." "The cases are not at all parallel," Ruth said, flushing deeply. "I consider myself on quite an equal footing with the President's wife or any other lady." Whereupon Marion laughed with more abandon than before. "Now, Ruth Erskine," she said, "don't be a goose. Do use your common sense; you have some, I am sure.
Captain Erskine took advantage of this pause to seize the halbert of one of his sergeants, to the extreme point of which he hastily attached a white pocket handkerchief, that was loosely thrust into the breast of his uniform; this he waved on high three several times, and then relinquishing the halbert, dropped also on his knee within the square.
It ended in the superintendent coming toward them at last. He didn't like to be too personal in his request, so he took the general way of putting a question, resting in the belief that each would refuse, and that then he could press the task on Miss Erskine. "We are short of teachers to-day; would one of you be willing to sit with that class at your right, and try to interest them a little?
They appear to me to imply that James sent the Master back, according to their arrangement, to bring Erskine, that the Master gave Erskine some invented message about waiting at some door, that he then shut a door between the King and his friends, but told the King that Erskine was to follow them.
There was a moment of tense, unhappy silence, then Erskine drew forward two more chairs, and motioned to the Major to be seated. "I think we shall have to thresh this out! It is naturally a shock, but Miss Gifford's acquaintance with this person is very slight. She took a violent dislike to him at first sight, so you need not fear that she will feel any personal distress. That is so, isn't it?
"What can they be about?" anxiously exclaimed Captain Erskine, in the midst of this deafening clamour, to his subaltern. "Quiet, man; damn you, quiet, or I'll cut you down," he pursued, addressing one of his soldiers, whose impatience caused him to bring his musket half up to the shoulder.
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