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You could never expect us to let you go to a barbarous place at the other end of the world with a man of as good as no religion at all." "He goes to church," said Essie, too simple to look beyond. "Only here, to please his mother. My dear, you must put this out of your head. Even if he were very different, we should never let you marry a first cousin, and he knows it.
"Well, Johnny and all the rest had known you ever so long," answered she, with a confusion of manner that expressed a good deal more than the words. "I really must go " "Not till you have told me more than that," cried Cecil, seizing his opportunity with a sudden rush of audacity. "If you know me, can you- can you like me? Can't you? Oh, Essie, stay!
Do you think I'd trouble myself for anything they might say or do to me?" Her eyes widened "You don't mean because of " "You? Exactly. Aren't we friends the best of friends Essie Tisdale?" The quick tears filled her eyes. "Sometimes," she answered chokingly, "I think you are my only friend." She continued, "And that's the reason I want you to be careful. Don't resent anything on my account "
Harpe was not gone long, but returned to stand beside the bunk, looking down upon Essie with eyes that in the dimness of the illy-lighted cabin shone with the baleful gleam of some rapacious feline. "You did a good job, Ess; he's dead as a mackerel." The answer was the faint, broken moan which came and went with her breath. "I'll go to town for help "
"A stranger to me," she gasped, with a paper white face and fluttering eyelids. Jasper Penny ejaculated sharply, "How much, Essie?" In a moment, he judged, familiar with a potential hysteria, she might faint, scream; there were clerks, people, in the next rooms. On the brink of collapse she hesitated, twisting her purple kid gloves. "Ten thousand dollars," she said.
I shall haunt the office until I hear from you, so lose no time." Further on she read: "I love you mightily, Essie Tisdale, and I have not closed my eyes for making plans for you and me. It is quite the most delirious happiness I have ever known.
The guests were leaving when she had found a chance to whisper, "You look so well to-night, Gussie," and Andy P. Symes had interrupted coldly, "Mrs. Symes, if you please, Essie." Her cheeks grew scarlet when she thought of it. She had meant to tell them in that way that the slight had not altered her friendship and Andy P. Symes had told her in his way that they did not want her friendship.
Personally, I like a womanly woman; Dr. Harpe is amusing but I should not care to see you imitate her. One does not fancy eccentricity in one's wife. There, there," he kissed her magnanimously, "now we'll forget this ever happened." Essie Tisdale's ostracism was practically complete, her position was all that even Dr. Harpe could desire, yet it left that person unsatisfied.
Mandy emerged from bed, clad in a red kimono and a pink boudoir cap, to receive this comforting message. She wept; Essie, who had followed in order to miss nothing, scowled, while J and I wound our bath-robes tightly about us and gritted our teeth, in an effort to preserve a proper solemnity.
She had broken down his prejudice; she had partially won him over; she had been the "hit" of the evening; further conquests were in sight and within easy reach if she played her cards right. And Essie Tisdale her long upper lip stretched in its mirthless smile she would not have her feelings this morning for a goodly sum. The thought of Van Lennop accelerated her movements.
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