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Rachael said quickly. "Don't you believe it, my dear!" Mrs. Haviland returned triumphantly. "Carol was very demure, 'Tante' this and 'Tante' that, but I knew right away that something was amiss! 'Oh, I said right out flatly, 'are you alone here, Carol? and she answered very prettily: 'Vivian was to be here, but she hasn't come yet! This was after half-past seven."
The Prince seemed somehow to have become the central figure of the little group. "Perhaps," he said, "if you had asked me that question a month ago, Mr. Haviland, I might have replied to you differently. Circumstances, however, since then have changed.
While at Snell's Hotel they displayed on the bar-room table pistols, dirks, and bowie-knives, and pointing to them, said Brazier, "Here is what we use, and we'll have the life of that d d abolitionist, Mrs. Haviland, before we leave this State, or be avenged on her in some way." The five men then in haste jumped aboard the stage for Adrian.
They said there was no disease about her, but that she seemed to sink from that day, growing weaker and weaker until she died. That was just two weeks ago to-day." Her eyes frequently filled with tears as she related this sad incident, and yet she could cheerfully say, "Oh, Mrs. Haviland, go with me into the kitchen to see my nigger baby."
Now it was young Black who was so shook after Mary when she was in service with the Blacks before the old man died, and if I hadn't come along and if girls never cared for vagabonds Mary would have been mistress of Haviland homestead, with servants to wait on her; and she was far better fitted for it than the one that was there.
"Your wishes will be attended to in this or any other respect as soon as you shall please to signify them, Miss Haviland," said the secretary, as, bowing a respectful adieu, he now departed with part of his armed attendants, for other and similar visits which remained to be accomplished that night among the unsuspecting tories of that vicinity.
"Have you something better?" Haviland, the manager, laughed and shook his head. "Scarcely! That suite is our pet and our pride. There's nothing to beat it in the whole Southwest." "It is very nice. May I inquire the rate?" "Twenty-five dollars a day." "Quite reasonable." Mr. Gray beamed his satisfaction. "It is the only suite we have left.
The young energies of Haviland responded readily. Their speeches were reported in full for the journals of the cities and watched for everywhere. It was the battle of Cataline and Cicero. The back parishes were not so soundly "Red" as Dormillière: they usually polled a considerable Blue vote, and were very unstable. Here were concentrated the efforts of Grandmoulin to cajole and Picault to buy.
The Rho fraternity called Walter Haviland "professor." Haviland was one of their pledged Freshmen. In rushing, a good nickname, gracefully used, is a great thing. It puts a Freshman considerably at his ease, and impresses him with the feeling that he belongs to the set.
Rachael, caught and reluctantly glancing toward them, had been surprised to recognize Charlotte Haviland and old Fanny. "Charlotte!" she said, coming toward the girl. And at her low, tense tone, Charlotte had begun to cry.
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