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The stronghold of Scotch Presbyterianism had become a London or a Paris, a Gomorrah! Mrs. Hambleton Durrett went her way, and Mr. Durrett his. The less said about Mr. Durrett's way even in this suddenly advanced age the better. As for Nancy, she seemed to the distant eye to be walking through life in a stately and triumphant manner.
"If the kind of thing we're coming to is democracy, God save the state!"... On the other hand I found myself drawing closer to Ralph Hambleton, sometimes present at these debates, as the only one of my boyhood friends who seemed to be able to "deal with conditions as he found them." Indeed, he gave one the impression that, if he had had the making of them, he would not have changed them.
The instruments twanged, the audience gathered, and at last the music began. Its first effect was to rouse Hambleton to a sharp attention to details the director, the people in the orchestra, the people in the boxes; and then he settled down, thinking his thoughts.
And I fail to see why you should blame me for taking it when you yourself have taken it. Hambleton Durrett can give it to me. He'll accept me on my own terms, he won't interfere with me, I shan't be disillusionized, and I shall have a position which I could not hope to have if I remained unmarried, a very marked position as Hambleton Durrett's wife. I am thirty, you know."
You merely announced an irrevocable decision." Nancy leaned forward and laid her hand on my arm. "My dear," she said, "strange as it may seem, I want you to be happy. I don't want you to make a mistake, Hugh, too great a mistake." I was surprised and moved. Once more I had a momentary glimpse of the real Nancy.... Our conversation was interrupted by the arrival of Ralph Hambleton....
Hambleton, a Scotchman, seemed to have an inclination to buy him between them; soon after came in one Mr. Ashcraft, who put in for him too, and the bowl of punch went merrily round. In the midst of their mirth, Mr.
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.
Mac Willett, Nancy's cousin, was going to Yale, Gene Hollister to Princeton, the Ewan boys to our State University, while Perry Blackwood and Ralph Hambleton and Ham Durrett were destined for Harvard; Tom Peters, also, though he was not to graduate from the Academy for another year. I might have known that Ralph would have suspected my misery.
The fact that many of these gentlemen literary and otherwise returned to their own shores better fed and with larger balances in the banks than when they departed is neither here nor there. Egyptians are proverbially created to be spoiled. The wiser and more fortunate of these travellers and students of life brought letters to Mr. and Mrs. Hambleton Durrett.
But I remember the thought, for it struck me with force, that if Christianity were so thoroughly discredited by evolution, as Ralph Hambleton and other agnostics would have one believe, why should this remarkably sane and able-looking person be standing up for it as though it were still an established and incontrovertible fact?
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