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"The secretary of State's office is the place you want to watch," said Hildreth. "New oil companies are incorporating every day. Pretty soon one of these will swallow up all the others: that one will be the Universal under another name, and in its application for a charter you'll find askings big enough to cover all the rights and privileges of the original monopoly."
At a nominal sum of fifteen dollars a month; the actress who owned it, sympathising with our fight, had rented it to me for the fall and winter ... if we could stand the bitter cold in a summer cottage.... There Hildreth stayed, seemingly alone, with Darrie, who had come down to chaperon her.
"I believe it might be managed," said Mrs. Hildreth after some consideration. "It was very clever of you to think of it, Isabelle. You ought to be a diplomat, my dear," and she smiled approvingly on her daughter. The train swept along through the picturesque Vermont scenery and Evadne looked out of her window with never ending delight.
"Oh, bother Kansas!" replied Hildreth humorously. For a month "I wonder what they'll say back in Kansas" was a catch-word for Broadway and the town. When the Evening Journal put us in their "Dingbat Family" I enjoyed the humour of it. But Hildreth was angry and aggrieved. "You and Penton," remarked she, "for men of culture and sensibility, have bigger blind spots than ordinary in your make-up.
There was a wonderful sweetness about the smiling mouth, and the face, although not classically beautiful, possessed a subtle spiritual charm more fascinating than mere physical perfection of color and form. She moved lightly with a buoyant youthfulness strangely at variance with the stately dignity of Mrs. Hildreth and the studied repose of Isabelle. "You dear child!"
As they mounted the front steps the faint notes of a guitar sounded from the front room. "Confound Isabelle and her eternal twanging!" muttered Louis, as he fumbled for his latch-key. "It would be a more orthodox welcome if you found your relations waiting for you with open arms, but the Hildreth family is not given to gush. Isabelle will tell you it is not good form.
"It is perfectly preposterous to think of our being reduced to such a style of living!" she continued, as Mrs. Kennard strove to soothe her baby's injured feelings with kisses. "Just fancy, only one servant! I never thought a Hildreth would fall so low." "But you and Mamma are comfortable, Isabelle. It is not as if you were forced to do anything." "Do anything!" echoed Isabelle.
We were, the four of us Darrie, Hildreth, Ruth, and I seated together at our outdoor table, scooping out soft-boiled eggs. Hildreth Baxter had boiled my two eggs medium for me ... to the humorous, affected consternation of Darrie and Ruth, which they, of course, deliberately made visible to me, with the implication
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But Hesden must be crazy to call her remarkable. She chuckled lightly as she determined to rally him upon it, when she saw him next. When that time came, the good lady had quite forgotten her resolve. It was a time of struggle at Mulberry Hill. Love and death fought for the life of little Hildreth Le Moyne.
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