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Lennox was in a feverish state till all her trappings came from New York. The bill was something stunning; but, then, it was voted by the young people that she had never looked so splendidly in her life; and she comforted herself with marking out a certain sublime distance and reserve of manner to be observed towards Mrs. Seymour and the Follingsbees.
Bridget makes splendid coffee." "It's a shame to laugh at what troubles me, John. The Follingsbees are my friends, and of course I want to treat them handsomely." "We will treat them just as handsomely as we treat ourselves," said John, "and mortal man or woman ought not to ask more." "I don't care," said Lillie, after a pause. "I hate all these moral movements and society questions.
There was a sound of stamping feet at the front door; and John came in, all ruddy and snow-powdered, but looking, on the whole, uncommonly cheerful. "Well, Gracie," he said, "the fact is, I shall have to let Lillie go to New York for a week or two, to see those Follingsbees. Hang them! But what's the matter, Gracie? Have you been crying, or sitting up all night reading, or what?"
Wilcox generally shaped her course by Mrs. Lennox: still she had promised Letitia Ferguson to be gracious to the Seymours in their exigency, and to call on the Follingsbees; so there was a confusion all round. The young people of both families declared that they were going, just to see the fun.
Now, the Seymours, the Fergusons, and the Wilcoxes were families of this sort; and none of them had ever cared to conceal the fact, that they did not intend to know the Follingsbees. The marriage of Lillie into the Seymour family was the opening of a door; and Mrs. Follingsbee had been at Lillie's feet during her Newport campaign.
John looked relieved; but after a minute broke out again: "I say, Gracie, Lillie has gone and invited the Simpkinses and the Follingsbees here this fall. Just think of it!" "Well, I suppose you expect your wife to have the right of inviting her company," said Grace. "But, you know, Gracie, they are not at all our sort of folks," said John.
"Didn't I tell you? I meant to," said Mrs. Lillie, innocently. "I don't like those Follingsbees, Lillie. He is a man I have no respect for; he is one of those shoddy upstarts, not at all our sort of folks. I'm sorry you asked him." "But his wife is my particular friend," said Lillie, "and they were very polite to mamma and me at Newport; and we really owe them some attention."
"Of course you did; that service is always interpreted by contraries, ever since Eve made Adam mind her in the beginning," said Mrs. Lillie, laughing. "And got things into a pretty mess in that way," said John; "but come, now, what is it?" "Well, John, you know the Follingsbees are coming next week?" "I know it," said John, looking amiable and conciliatory.
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