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She heard the door open, and when Miss Shellington entered her red face was bent low over the grammar. A few seconds before, when Miss Shellington had entered the house, she had seen Everett's shadow on the drawing-room curtain; but for the moment her habitual concern for Floyd overrode her eagerness to be with her lover, and she hurried to the sickroom.
But after a few days the public awoke to the fact that Lincoln's "few remarks" were immeasurably superior to Everett's brilliant and learned oration. The author distinctly remembers that it was compared to the oration of Pericles in memory of the Athenian dead; that it was currently said that there had been no memorial oration from that date to Lincoln's speech of equal power.
"Of course he will come there to see Everett. After what has occurred you can hardly forbid him the house. He has saved Everett's life." "I don't know that he has done anything of the kind," said Mr. Wharton, who was vacillating between different opinions.
He did not move from the window, and Screech Owl sank to the floor. "Little 'un," she whispered, "I've comed for ye, little 'un!" The sound of her hoarse voice stirred Everett's senses. He gave one step forward, and the woman spoke again: "I telled yer pappy that I'd bring ye!" Brimbecomb shook his shoulders, his dread deepening.
I will not have my daughter encourage an adventurer, a man of whom nobody knows anything. That is reason sufficient." "He has a business, and he lives with gentlemen. He is Everett's friend. He is well educated; oh, so much better than most men that one meets. And he is clever. Papa, I wish you knew him better than you do." "I do not want to know him better." "Is not that prejudice, papa?"
"How many of them are there, mother?" was Lucy's response. "Oh, my dear child, how often I have explained all to you! There's Laura Everett, my dear friend Lady Everett's only daughter; then there is Annie Millar, whom I do not know anything about but she is a friend of Laura's, and that alone is recommendation enough." "Laura Everett, Annie Millar," quoted Lucy in a low tone.
Of men of Everett's traditions and education she had known but few; but she recognized the type. This young man was no failure in life, no derelict, no outcast flying the law, or a scandal, to hide in the jungle. He was what, in her Maxim days, she had laughed at as an aristocrat. He knew her Paris as she did not know it: its history, its art.
Everett's language made no impression on him, because he had not the key to interpret its significance. What he saw, that he set down for his readers, without fear or favor. He had not seen slavery, knew nothing of the evil. Acquaintance with the deeper things of life, individual or national, comes only with increasing years, they are hardly for him who has not yet reached his majority.
It is said to have been written on scraps of paper, as the great care-worn man rode in the car from Washington to Gettysburg, and I have been told by one who was present at the ceremonies that the quiet had hardly come over the vast audience, stirred by the eloquence of Edward Everett's oration which had lasted two hours, before this briefest and noblest of American orations, spoken in a high and unmusical voice by the great lank figure, consulting his manuscript, was over.
He might wear a white vest, but not a buff or a figured one. Sumner preferred a buff vest, and insisted on wearing it. His college course was not a brilliant one like Everett's and Phillips's, but seems to have been based on a more solid ground-work. It was in the Law-School that Sumner first distinguished himself.
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