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Yesterday, as usual, he had looked in for half an hour at three o'clock; but unexpectedly he came again at seven in the evening, and for a third time at about eleven, when the printing of the paper was in full swing. 'It was supposed by the persons whom he then saw that Mr. Frothingham finally quitted the office; whether he actually left the building or not seems to remain uncertain.
"I hope," he said, "that I haven't frightened you." He was an American! Antoinette's little heart leaped. "I am having to wait here for a bit," explained Amory, not without vagueness. Miss Frothingham advanced to the veranda rail and contrived a shy scrutiny of the intruder. "No," she said, "you didn't frighten me in the least, of course. But do you usually do your waiting at this altitude?"
Upon her recovery, Harvey took his wife to Madeira, where they spent three weeks. Alma's health needed nothing more than this voyage; she returned full of vitality. During her absence Mrs. Frothingham superintended the household, the baby being in charge of a competent nurse.
Hastings fretfully commented. "I'm sure, Olivia," she said, "I think it is frightfully unwomanly in you " "To take so much interest in my own murder?" Miss Holland asked in amusement. "Aunt Dora, I'm going to do more: I suggest that you and Mr. Frothingham and I go with Mr. St. George to this address in McDougle Street " "My dear Olivia!" shrilled Mrs.
Mrs Frothingham having departed, new visitors succeeded each other: Dora and Gerda Leach, Basil Morton and his wife, one or two of Alma's relatives. Little Hugh saw less and less of his mother, but he continued to thrive; and Harvey understood by now that Alma must not be expected to take much interest in the domestic side of things. It simply was not her forte.
I know all your anxieties about me, and I am very grateful, and I feel ashamed to be living at your expense, but really I must go about making a career for myself in my own way. Mrs. Frothingham yielded, and Alma took lodgings in Munich together with her German friend. English newspapers were now reporting the trial of the directors of the Britannia Company, for to this pass had things come.
'That's one of the things you say just to puzzle people. It contradicts all sorts of things I've heard you say at other times. Do you think, Mamma, that Mr. Rolfe missed his vocation when he didn't become a sheep-farmer? Mrs. Frothingham gently shook her head.
Thomas Paine was the legitimate ancestor of Hosea Ballou, who founded the Universalist Church, and also of Theodore Parker, who made Unitarianism in America an intellectual torch. Channing, Ripley, Bartol, Martineau, Frothingham, Hale, Curtis, Collyer, Swing, Thomas, Conway, Leonard, Savage yes, even Emerson and Thoreau were spiritual children, all, of Thomas Paine.
Stewart Frothingham, and Josephine and his mother and sister had gone up to Yale for his graduation, and "it" had been instantaneous, "we knew that very day," said Josephine, with a lovely awe in her eyes, "but we didn't say anything to Mrs. Frothingham or Ethel until later."
Augustus Frothingham, who had assumed an air of polite interest and an accurately cynical smile, and the manner of generously lending his professional attention to any of the vagaries of the client. Mrs. Hastings stirred uneasily. "I'm sure," she said fretfully, "that I must be very stupid, but I simply can not follow you. Why, you talk about things that don't exist!
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