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He belonged to a generation of men who loved conversation when they conversed. All the lawyers dropped in. The report of his failing strength brought these and many others. He saw a great deal of Professor Hardage.
As soon as she saw him, she rose and held out her hand to Professor Hardage; then without speaking and still without looking at him, she placed the tips of her fingers on the elbow of his sleeve. As they walked away, she renewed her request in a low voice: "Take me where we shall be undisturbed." They left the rooms. It was an interval between the dances: the verandas were crowded.
Professor Hardage became very active in trying to bring the truth out of what he believes to be gossip and misunderstanding. And Miss Anna has also remained loyal to him, and in her sunny, common-sense way flouts the idea of there being any truth in these reports. "I must not forget to tell you that Judge Morris now spends his Sunday evenings with Professor Hardage.
When Professor Hardage spoke, his tone was reflective: "It was this that made it impossible for her to marry him. Her love for him was everything to her; he destroyed himself for her when he destroyed himself as an ideal. Did he tell you the story?" "Told everything." By and by the Judge resumed: "It was a student's love affair, and he would have married her.
Rowan came the next afternoon. She was in the library; and he went in and shut the door, and they were left alone. Professor Hardage and Miss Anna sat in an upper room. He had no book and she had no work; they were thinking only of the two downstairs. And they spoke to each other in undertones, breaking the silence with brief sentences, as persons speak when awaiting news from sick-rooms.
Judge Josiah Hardage, Arkadelphia, assisted by W. J. Waggoner of Lonoke and James A. Choate of Floyd, led the opposition in the House and conducted the bitterest fight waged during the session. Sixteen men stood solidly with them in all parliamentary tactics in hopes of killing the bill.
One afternoon Professor Hardage found him sitting with his familiar Shakespeare on his knees. As he looked up, he stretched out his hand in eager welcome and said: "Listen once more;" and he read the great kindling speech of King Henry to his English yeomen on the eve of battle. He laid the book aside. "Of course you have noticed how Shakespeare likes this word 'mettle, how he likes the thing.
Miss Anna came with Harriet; Professor Hardage came alone; Barbee burgeoning Alcibiades of the ballroom came with Self-Confidence. He strolled indifferently toward the eldest Marguerite, from whom he passed superiorly to the central one; by that time the third had vanished. "Mamma," protested Marguerite, with indignant eyes, "do you wish Isabel to stand here and eclipse your daughter?
That evening as Professor Hardage sat opposite to her, reading, while she was doing some needlework, he laid his book down with the idea of asking her some question. But he caught sight of her expression and studied it a few moments. It was so ludicrous a commingling of mortification and rage that he laughed outright. "Why, Anna, what on earth is the matter?"
But he meant to be canny; this time he would choose a woman who, if she ruled him, would not misrule him; what he could stand was a sovereign, not a despot, and he believed that he had found this exceptionally gifted and exceptionally moderated being: it was Miss Anna Hardage.
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