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Updated: June 6, 2025
"My soft heart'll ruin me yet." Jeffries sent Mary Hinkle home with Susan to carry the dress and hat, to help her make a toilet and to "start her off right." In the hour before they left the store there was offered a typical illustration of why and how "business" is able to suspend the normal moral sense and to substitute for it a highly ingenious counterfeit of supreme moral obligation to it.
Her poverty she easily conceived of; plenty of signorine in Italy were poor; and she protected her in it with the duty she did not divide quite evenly between her and the padrone. The date which Clementina had fixed for hearing from Hinkle by cable had long passed, and the time when she first hoped to hear from him by letter had come and gone. Her address was with the vice-consul as Mrs.
It was hard to tell him this, but she knew that she must not do less; and the train that carried him from Venice that night bore a letter from her to Hinkle. Clementina told Miss Milray what had happened, but with Mrs. Milray the girl left the sudden departure of Gregory to account for itself. They all went a week later, and Mrs.
"Well," said Claxon, "you must make Miss Hinkle, he'a, stand it if it ain't. She's got me to go to it." Mr. Orson apparently could not enter into the joke; but he accompanied the party, which again began to forget him, across the ferry and up the elevated road to the street car that formed the last stage of their progress to the hotel.
On the fifth, Jacks and I, entering the brush arbor for our supper, saw the Mexican youth, instead of a divinity in a spotless waist and a navy-blue skirt, taking in the dollars through the barbed-wire wicket. We rushed into the kitchen, meeting Pa Hinkle coming out with two cups of hot coffee in his hands. "Where's Ileen?" we asked, in recitative. Pa Hinkle was a kindly man.
"No no," he said, and he moved away, forgetful of the ceremonious salutation which he commonly used at meeting and parting. Hinkle looked after him with the impression people have of a difference in the appearance and behavior of some one whose appearance and behavior do not particularly concern them.
Scarcely had he seated himself at his desk when an emergency call came snapping in; a call of such import that his secretary's usually calm voice trembled as she put it on his plate. "Commissioner Hinkle is calling, sir," she announced. "Something terrible is going on again, out toward Orion.
Hallock, don't you be shy." Miss Laura Hinkle leaned forward and shook a bony finger almost under my chin. "I I'm not! Only I say I won't !" "No, it's very easy, really. You just put the tips of your fingers right here beside the tips of my fingers " And the first thing I knew she had taken my hands and was coyly holding them in the position desired.
He asked Mrs. Lander, with real feeling, how she was; as for Miss Clementina, he need not ask. "Oh, indeed, the docta thinks she wants a little lookin' after, too," said Mrs. Lander. "Well, about as much as you do, Mrs. Lander," Hinkle allowed, tolerantly. "I don't know how it affects you, ma'am, such a meeting of friends in these strange waters, but it's building me right up.
Here Jacks and Bud and I or sometimes one or two of us, according to our good-luck used to sit of evenings when the tide of trade was over, and "visit" Miss Hinkle. Ileen was a girl of ideas. She had read and listened and thought.
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