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Gaylord, I should love to live in a kitchen like that." "I guess you wouldn't if you had to," said Mrs. Gaylord, flattered into a smile. "Marcia, she likes to sit out there, she says, better than anywheres in the house. But I always tell her it's because she was there so much when she was little. I don't see as she seems over-anxious to do anything there but sit, I tell her.
"I hope 't she'll be able to school herself, so 's t' not show out her feelings so much," said Mrs. Gaylord. "I wish she could school herself so as to not have 'em so much; but I guess she'll have 'em, and I guess she'll show 'em out."
She'll come out all right, and she won't come out hand in hand with Hibbard Gaylord. You see if she does." Miss Maggie shook her head and sighed. You don't know Jane. Jane will never give up. She'll be quiet, but she'll be firm. With one hand she'll keep Gray away, and with the other she'll push Gaylord forward. Even Mellicent herself won't know how it's done.
Valentine's Day of that year when, to tell the truth, he was seated in his office scribbling certain descriptions of nature suggested by the valentines in Mr. Hayman's stationery store, the postman brought in a letter from young Tom Gaylord. Austen laughed as he read it.
Life! As if he cared for life! Had he not spent years on years in seeking what just now had been in his very grasp, only to be withdrawn by two caressing hands? And Doctor Morris, on the day of his final visit, had left him no possibility of misunderstanding. "Miss Gaylord has saved your life," he said. "I could do little. It was her nursing that pulled you through."
Victoria laughed at his expressive phrase, and crossed the road, and sat down on the edge of the lumber pile, in the shade. "There seems to be nothing to do but wait," she said, "and to thank you again. Will you tell me your name?" "I'm Tom Gaylord," he replied. Her colour, always so near the surface, rose a little as she regarded him.
"Let 'em yell;" counsels Mr. Billings, "and if they do nominate anybody nobody'll hear 'em. And send word to Putnam County to come along on their fifth ballot." It is Mr. Billings himself who sends word to Putnam County, in the name of the convention's chairman. Before the messenger can reach Putnam County another arrives on the stage, with wide pupils, "Tom Gaylord is coming!"
Thomas Gaylord were apt to be well received and Tom had been making suggestions. Early as he was at his office the office-boy was sprinkling the floor young Tom had a visitor who was earlier still. Pausing in the doorway, Mr.
"The campaign of the Honourable Humphrey Crewe of Leith," said the State Tribune next day, "was inaugurated at the Opera House in Ripton last night before an enthusiastic audience consisting of Mr. Austen Vane, Mr. Thomas Gaylord, Jr., Mr. Hamilton Tooting, two reporters, and seventy-four ladies, who cheered the speaker to the echo.
But I appreciated your precaution in sending the buggy behind me, although it wasn't necessary. "I felt somewhat responsible," replied Tom, and words failed him. "Here's Austen Vane," he added, indicating by a nod of the head the obvious presence of that gentleman. "You'll excuse me. There's a man here I want to see." "What's the matter with Mr. Gaylord?" Victoria asked. "He seems so queer."
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