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This was just the type of man to become enraptured with Prudence. He gazed across at her solemnly during the church service. He waited patiently after the benediction until she finished her Methodist practise of hand-shaking, and then walked joyously home with her. He said little, but he gazed in frank enchantment at the small womanly girl beside him.
Why, there are a thousand greetings for this time of love and good words you might have chosen. Besides, I have come back ill and poor, a beggar perhaps. How do women receive such, generous women? Is there no etiquette? no hand-shaking? nothing more? remembering that I was once not indifferent to you." He laughed. She stood still and grave as before.
"Succeeding the hand-shaking the Director spoke again, and, in reply, Mr. Morse gratefully acknowledged the courtesy shown to him, adding: 'It is very gratifying to me to hear you say that the Telegraph has been and is a means of promoting peace among men. Believe me, gentlemen, my remaining days shall be devoted to this great object....
"'Pennsylvania bows to Illinois, where we have been told there were only Little Giants, said Kelly, gracefully alluding to Douglas, who was called the Little Giant. "One by one we were introduced by Mr. Ashman. After the hand-shaking was over, Mr. Lincoln said: "'Mrs. Lincoln will be pleased to see you gentlemen in the adjoining room, where you will find some refreshments.
Certainly the panels took a new beauty, a luminous delicacy, in their artificial rays; and Dorothea, when, after much greeting and hand-shaking, she joined one of the groups inspecting them, felt a sort of proprietary pleasure in the praises she heard. Had she known it, she too was looking her best tonight in an old- maidish fashion, be it understood.
Which is it to be?" "We'll go with you!" says the man who had pulled the stroke in the whale-boat, spitting into the water with averted face. Upon which utterance the convicts burst into joyous oaths, and the pair were received with much hand-shaking.
Don't you know me? Your old friend Elderkin." "Sir? Elderkin? Oh! ah! yes! How do you do, Mr. Elderkin?" he stammered, seeming very awkward, and hardly responding at all to my vigorous hand-shaking. "I am delighted to see you again," I continued. "I have had no news of you these five years. Do you live in this neighborhood?"
"It isn't late yet, but I'm sure we're all tired. And we've had rather an exciting evening." There was a good deal of hand-shaking, and a little talk of plans for the morrow. Bubbles had come over, and joined the others, but she was still curiously abstracted. "Where's Mr. Burnaby?" she asked suddenly. "Wasn't he at the séance?" "He's gone to bed," said his sister shortly.
He smiled down at Thorn, who scowled, then grinned reluctantly and nodded his head. When general good feeling was restored Murray attempted to make his way out; but his men seemed determined to thank him one by one, and he was delayed through a long process of hand-shaking.
Sixteen miles out I become the happy recipient of hearty well-wishes innumerable, with the accompanying hand-shaking, and my escort turn back toward home and Liverpool all save four, who wheel on to Warrington and remain overnight, with the avowed intention of accompanying me twenty-five miles farther to-morrow morning.
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