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She, too, went regularly to confession, but up to the present time had omitted the sin of being ashamed of her former poverty and environment. She had taken it for granted that upon her shoulders rested the future good fortune of the Harrigans. They had money; all that was required was social recognition. She found it a battle within a battle.
Want you to come over and take tea this afternoon. I'm going up presently to see the Harrigans. Thought I'd go around and do the thing informally. Taken a fancy to the old chap. He's a little bit of all right. I'm no older than he is, but look at the difference! Whisky and soda, that's the racket. Not by the tubful; just an ordinary half dozen a day, and a dem climate thrown in."
So Hal went on, observing the forms of social intercourse, his purpose being to give his mind a chance to work. So much depended upon the tactics he chose in this emergency! Should he take Percy to one side and tell him the story quietly, leaving it to his sense of justice and humanity? No, that was not the way one dealt with the Harrigans!
Hal understood Betty she was one of the Harrigans, working at the Harrigan family task of making the children of a pack-pedlar into leaders in the "younger set!"
I was thinking aloud. How long have you known the Harrigans?" "The father and mother I never saw before to-day." "Then you have met Miss Harrigan?" "I have seen her on the stage." "I have the happiness of being her confessor." They proceeded quite as far as a hundred yards before Courtlandt volunteered: "That must be interesting." "She is a good Catholic." "Ah, yes; I recollect now." "And you?"
Homely women seldom are annoyed, unless they become suffragists." The colonel poured forth a dense cloud of smoke. "What brand is that, Colonel?" asked Courtlandt, choking. The colonel generously produced his pouch. "No, no! I was about to observe that it isn't ambrosia." "Rotter!" The soldier dug the offender in the ribs. "I am going to have the Harrigans over for tea this afternoon. Come over!
It will be distressing to Dad if he hears what has happened, and it will not be possible to keep the matter from him for long." As Hal read, he frowned; evidently the Harrigans had got busy without delay! He went to the office and telephoned his answer. "Am planning to leave in a day or two. Trust you will make an effort to spare Dad until you have heard my story." This message troubled Hal.
The life of the Harrigans was dominated by one painful memory that of a pedlar's pack; and Hal knew that Percy's most urgent purpose was to be regarded as a real and true and freehanded aristocrat. It was this knowledge Hal was using in his attack. He began with apologies, attempting to soothe the other's anger.
They were people to whom good taste was the first of all the virtues; he knew how he was offending them. If he was to win them to the least extent, he must explain his presence here a trespasser upon the property of the Harrigans. "Percy," he continued, "you remember how you used to jump on me last year at college, because I listened to 'muck-rakers. You saw fit to take personal offence at it.
How do you come to know so much about the psychology of the leisure class?" "I used to have money once," said Hal. "My family's gone down as quickly as the Harrigans have come up." Hal went on to question Keating about the apple-blossom girl. "Maybe I could guess who she is. What colour was her hair?"
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