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We are all fatherless, and may well have a fellow-feeling for her. We will do what we can to make life pleasant to her, and I think from my sister's report that we shall find her an agreeable addition to the Fairview family."
It's the honour of having you," he added, and Victoria thought that no courtier could have worded an invitation better. She would not be missed at Fairview. Her mother was inaccessible at this hour, and the servants would think of her as dining at Leith.
Incomplete returns indicated a slight gain for Hopkins, but not more than a dozen votes altogether. "Everything now depends upon Dupree and Fairview," announced Kenneth, "but I can't get any connection with them yet. We won in Elmwood, anyhow, and Hopkins isn't ahead more than a hundred and sixty as the thing stands now. Cheer up, girls.
By the 1st of October the two families were again at home at Ion and Fairview, pursuing the even tenor of their way, Lulu with them, as of old, no new home having yet been found for her. No one had cared to make much effort in that direction. It was just as well, Mr.
It was a tomato that was overripe, and the center splashed over both boys. "Who threw that?" cried Snap, in anger. There was no answer. "Whoever threw that is too cowardly to own to it!" went on the leader of the Fairview Gun Club. "Do you mean to say we are a set of cowards?" blustered Ham Spink. "Yes, you are, to do such a mean thing as that in the dark."
"You're only mad because you can't go along, Ham Spink!" cried Snap. "Bah! I wouldn't go with you!" retorted Ham Spink. "When I go out I'll do it in first-class style and with an A1 guide. No little two-cent trip for me." Hamilton Spink was the son of a very aristocratic man who had come to Fairview a year before.
For instance start up the old Stage Road, go as far as Daddy Wright's, then to the top of Cheyenne Mountain through that valley. There is a beautiful park there that might be suitable; then down Rock Creek, up around Black Mountain, back around St. Peter's Dome, then study the canyons along the railroad. They say there is a good cabin somewhere near Daniel's Pass, and several around Fairview.
"That letter you brought Grandma Elsie from the post-office this morning was from Aunt Elsie; and they are at home by this time she wrote just as they were ready to start and Evelyn Leland is with them; she's to make her home at Fairview." "Well, and what of it? what do I care about it? or you either?" "Dear me, Max, you might care!
Crewe had answered; "I guess she knows something about old Flint and his methods by this time. At any rate, it won't make any difference with me," he added magnanimously, and threw in his clutch. He had encircled Fairview in his drive that day, and was, curiously enough, headed in that direction now.
We fought about you once," he said; and then he told her briefly of Talbot's end, his burial, the interview he had with Talbot's mother, and the letter. "I have seen that letter since I returned," she said. "It is at Fairview Hall now awaiting you, awaiting its master like the other things there, and here. Shall we live there, think you, John?" "Awaiting me! Its master! Live there!
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