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While in France, awaiting his return home, he had purchased a ring and sent it to her. She was wearing it, of course. Compared with other articles of jewelry which she wore from time to time, his ring made an extremely modest showing. She seemed quite unaware of the discrepancy, but he was aware of it. On an evening later in the week Mrs. Fosdick gave a reception.
A genius might have been equal to the job, but I wasn't." Mrs. Fosdick glanced at her husband. There was something of alarmed apprehension in the glance. Madeline's next remark covered the situation. It expressed the absolute truth, so much more of the truth than even the young lady herself realized at the time.
But when the gushing reporter responsible for this added that "Miss Fosdick was a dream of loveliness on this occasion" he was stating only the truth. She was very beautiful indeed and a certain young man who stepped up to claim his first dance realized the fact.
We shall get home to breakfast, and be in good time too." Fosdick was right. They were the first to seat themselves at the table. Mr. Clifton came in directly afterwards. Dick felt a momentary embarrassment. "What would he say," thought our hero, "if he knew where I passed the night?" "Good-morning, Hunter," said Clifton. "You didn't favor us with your presence at dinner last evening."
They surveyed each other askance, feeling that they were rivals, and mentally calculating each other's chances. "There isn't much chance for me," said Fosdick to Dick, who had accompanied him. "Look at all these boys. Most of them have good homes, I suppose, and good recommendations, while I have nobody to refer to." "Go ahead," said Dick. "Your chance is as good as anybody's."
"I don't know any of them," said Fosdick. "I've only studied them. I wish I knew a great deal more." "I'll be satisfied when I know as much as you," said Dick. "It seems a great deal to you now, Dick, but in a few months you'll think differently. The more you know, the more you'll want to know." "Then there aint any end to learnin'?" said Dick. "No."
Fosdick, with sadness, "you may say what you like, but I am one of nine brothers and sisters brought up on the old place, and we're all dead but me." "Your sister Dailey ain't gone, is she? Why, no, Louisa ain't gone!" exclaimed Mrs. Todd, with surprise. "Why, I never heard of that occurrence!" "Yes'm; she passed away last October, in Lynn.
Greyson for the Sunday school, Ida placed her hand in Dick's, and said persuasively, "You'll come again, Dick, won't you?" "Thank you," said Dick, "I'd like to," and he could not help thinking Ida the nicest girl he had ever seen. "Yes," said Mrs. Greyson, hospitably, "we shall be glad to see you both here again." "Thank you very much," said Henry Fosdick, gratefully.
I have not consulted her wishes in the matter, but will ask her if she will undertake it." At this a wild cheer went up, and Ted dashed out of the arena to find Stella. In a moment he was back, and announced that Miss Fosdick would try it. Presently Stella rode in on Custer at a hard gallop, gathering up her rope as she rode.
Dick may be excused for feeling like a capitalist when he looked at the long row of deposits in his little bank-book. There were other boys in the same business who had earned as much money, but they had had little care for the future, and spent as they went along, so that few could boast a bank-account, however small. "You'll be a rich man some time, Dick," said Henry Fosdick, one evening.
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