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Wilson thinks, to be able to tell those men that their situation is not changed by the death of Mrs. Frostwinch, which is almost sure to take place before the convention. You must explain that to Miss Morison." "The obligation which she is under to you," the Father said, ignoring the exclamation, "will naturally incline her to listen." "But I cannot"
I was abroad while he was in college, so I never knew him except most casually before." "But if he really cares for her he'll get over those obstacles." "If she cares for him, he must be made to." "I am convinced that she does," Mrs. Frostwinch said. "I am so glad you speak well of him. I do so want Bee to be happy." There was a long silence in the chamber. The two friends sat wrapped in thought.
"I never had any confidence in him." "Oh, he acts according to his nature," was the good-humored response, "and I'm afraid there isn't substance enough to him for grace to get a very strong hold to change him. If Mrs. Frostwinch is taking an active part in this matter there are others she can influence." "Yes," the colleague said.
It seemed to Maurice that he could not say it; but he cleared his throat, and forced himself to look her in the face. "It has to do with your inheritance of the your inheritance through Mrs. Frostwinch." "My inheritance? What do you mean?" she demanded, suddenly becoming grave. As briefly as possible he explained to her the errand which had been given to him.
They walked a moment in silence, and then Maurice made another effort. "Has Mrs. Frostwinch been ill?" he asked. "Mrs. Staggchase spoke of her as a miracle." "Ill!" echoed Miss Morison; "she has been wholly given up by the physicians. She has some horrible internal trouble; and a consultation of the best doctors in town decided that she could not live a week. That was two months ago."
Maurice blushed at his own folly in betraying his secret scruples, but his cousin spared him any farther teasing, and they went on their way peacefully. It seemed to him when he entered the stately Frostwinch house that it had somehow been transformed. Everything was much as it had been in the lifetime of Mrs. Frostwinch, yet to his fancy all looked fresher and more cheerful.
They in a mild way instituted a Stanton cult, as a minor interest in lives already richly full, and when more weighty matters did not interfere, Mrs. Frostwinch, in varying degrees of enthusiasm, could be charming in her praises of the sculptor, whom she designated as "adorably ursine," and of his work, which in turn, she termed "irresistibly insistent," whatever that might mean.
"I certainly did not know it," he answered. "I was coming to speak to Mrs. Frostwinch about the election." "It's the last of three lectures," Mrs. Fenton explained. "Mrs. Crapps, you know, is the woman that has been curing Mrs. Frostwinch." Ashe stood hesitatingly silent in the gateway a moment. "I should like to see her," he said thoughtfully.
Maurice could see his companion shrink under this cool directness, and he hastened to interpose. "But Mrs. Frostwinch," he said, "is absorbed in Christian Science or something, isn't she?" "Oh, dear, yes," Mrs. Wilson answered, toying with the broad crimson ribbon which served her as a girdle.
"He has just been here," Strathmore said smiling. "He told me in so many words that he is to vote for Frontford. His conscience will not allow him to run the risk of depriving his children of the annuity Mrs. Frostwinch gives his wife. I'm sure I'm not inclined to blame him." "It is outrageous that he should fail you after all you've done for him," Thurston declared with some heat.
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