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Updated: June 21, 2025
If he is thinking of trade nine-tenths of the time, his mind gets set that way. I'm ready any minute to jump the fence, like father's old colt up on the farm. I'm not a snob, but I recognize now that there was some reason for all our old Hambleton ancestors being so finicky about trade. "Do you remember how we used to talk, when we were kiddies, about keeping our ideals?
And when she told me we had a common acquaintance in Mrs. Hambleton Durrett whom she thought so lovely! I knew that she had taken Nancy as an ideal: Nancy, the social leader of what was to Mrs. George a metropolis. Presently the talk became general among the men, the subject being the campaign, and I the authority, bombarded with questions I strove to answer judicially.
"I know what's the matter with you, Ralph Hambleton," she would say. "You're jealous." An accusation that invariably put him on the defensive. "You think all the girls are in love with you, don't you?" These scenes I found somewhat embarrassing. Not so Nancy.
It was natural that the news of such a feat as we were accomplishing should have leaked out, that the "yard" should have been visited from time to time by interested friends, some of whom came to admire, some to scoff, and all to speculate. Among the scoffers, of course, was Ralph Hambleton, who stood with his hands in his pockets and cheerfully predicted all sorts of dire calamities.
One of the results it will be remembered of religion as I was taught it was a pernicious shyness, and even though I had found a mentor and confessor, I might have hesitated to unburden myself. This would be different from arguing with Ralph Hambleton.
Hambleton Durrett, painted in Paris the autumn before by a Polish artist then much in vogue, Stanislaus Czesky. Nancy was it Nancy? was standing facing me, tall, superb in the maturity of her beauty, with one hand resting on an antique table, a smile upon her lips, a gentle mockery in her eyes as though laughing at the world she adorned.
And I found myself a little later walking past the familiar, empty houses of those streets.... The front pages of the evening newspapers announced the accident to Hambleton Durrett, and added that Mrs. Durrett, who had been lingering in the city, had gone to her husband's bedside.
Hambleton Durrett, painted in Paris the autumn before by a Polish artist then much in vogue, Stanislaus Czesky. Nancy was it Nancy? was standing facing me, tall, superb in the maturity of her beauty, with one hand resting on an antique table, a smile upon her lips, a gentle mockery in her eyes as though laughing at the world she adorned.
The orchestra ceased, but Hambleton did not heed the commotion about him. The pause and the fresh beginning of the strings scarcely disturbed his ecstatic reverie. A deep hush lay upon the vast assemblage, broken only by the voices of the violins. And then, in the zone of silence that lay over the listening people silence that vibrated to the memory of the strings there rose a little song.
Agatha felt guilty, but could scarcely confess it. "You are all invited for next year, you know," she said. "And we're all coming," announced Mélanie. "But poor Mr. Hambleton will miss his supper tonight." The "poor Mr. Hambleton" struck Agatha. "I think Mr. Hambleton is doing very well indeed. I saw him start off for a walk this afternoon." "Jim's a chump. Give him a cold potato," jeered Aleck.
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