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Your aunt will initiate you into the mysteries of shopping. By the way, you must have gone through that experience in Barbadoes. How did you manage there?" Evadne turned her head away and clenched her hands tightly as the flood of bitter-sweet memories threatened to engulf her. "Papa always went with me," she said slowly, "whatever he liked I chose." Judge Hildreth gave a sigh of relief.
Hildreth turned her face up to me. Her arm went through mine. She drew my arm close against her body and held it tight in silent response for a quiet interval.... "You are a poet ... a real poet ... and," she dropped her voice, "and, what is more, a real man, too!" there was a world of compassion in her voice.... " You remember Blake's evening star that 'washed the dusk with silver?"
Hildreth, "I beg you will not repeat your mistake of yesterday." "What do you mean, Aunt Kate?" "Bringing such a disreputable character into the house. When I came in and found her sitting in the hall and you talking to her I was perfectly paralyzed. Horrible! Why her rags were abominable, and her feet were bare!" "But she had no shoes, Aunt Kate, and she was just my height.
The card bore the name of the nominal president of the Consolidated Provident Savings Company, which was one of the numerous schemes that Judge Hildreth had on hand. It was not always wise to have his name appear. He believed in sleeping partnerships. As he explained it to himself, that gave one a free hand. The Consolidated Provident Savings Company was a popular institution in Marlborough.
She moved apart a little, with a motion of slow deliberation. "Hildreth!" I heard myself calling again, with a deep voice, a voice that sounded alien in my own ears....
"Drag back a little, Johnnie ... Penton and Hildreth are having a private heart-to-heart talk, I can tell by their voices." We hung back till they disappeared around a bend. We were alone. Darrie began to laugh and laugh and laugh.... "Oh, it's so funny, I shall die laughing".... "Why why, what's the matter!" For I saw tears streaming down the girl's face in the moonlight.
The president himself couldn't have rolled that sentence off better, or that old piece of pomposity who conies to the secret meetings with the gold-headed cane." "That's Judge Hildreth. He's another deep one or I lose my guess." "Why, he's a No. I deacon in one of the uptown's swellest churches!" "Guess he's a child of darkness in between times then, for I'll bet he does lots of underground work.
"Was that you, Nimbus?" asked Mollie, turning from a bright-eyed successor to little Hildreth, whom she had been proudly caressing. "I thought I heard some one call me, but did not think of its being you. I am so sorry! I stopped and looked, but could see nothing." "No, you didn't see me, Miss Mollie, but it done me a power o' good ter see you.
So light had been the footsteps and so deeply had he been absorbed in thought, he had not heard his niece enter the library and cross the room until she stood before his desk. Very fair was the picture which his eyes rested upon. What made his brows contract as if something hurt him in the sight? Evadne Hildreth was in all the sweetness of her young womanhood.
There was a gleam of battle satisfaction in the editorial eye when Hildreth faced the last sheet down upon the accumulation of evidence, saying: "You didn't overstate the fact in your brag about the political graves. Only this isn't a spade; it's a steam shovel. Do I understand you are giving me this stuff to use as I please?" "Just that," said Kent. "And you have made it serve your turn, too?"
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