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Come ahead, Billie!" "No," said Hawker, without looking at his friend, "I can't this morning, Hollie. I've got to go to work. Good-bye!" He comprehended them both in a swift bow and stalked away. Hollanden turned quickly to the girl. "What was the matter with Billie? What was he grinding his teeth for? What was the matter with him?" "Why, nothing was there?" she asked in surprise.
"Well, anyhow, Hollie," exclaimed the younger sister, "you didn't explain a thing about how literary men came to be so peculiar, and that's what you started out to do, you know." "Well," said Hollanden crossly, "you must never expect a man to do what he starts to do, Millicent. And besides," he went on, with the gleam of a sudden idea in his eyes, "literary men are not peculiar, anyhow."
"Well, what made you remember it?" he demanded, as if he had cause to be indignant. "Why I just remembered it because I liked it, and because well, the people with me said said it was about the best thing in the exhibit, and they talked about it a good deal. And then I remember that Hollie had spoken of you, and then I I " "Never mind," he said.
"Well, Hollie," said Hawker, with sudden affability, "I didn't mean to be unpleasant, but then you are rather ridiculous, you know, sitting up there and howling about the colour of hair and eyes." "I'm not ridiculous." "Yes, you are, you know, Hollie." The writer waved his hand despairingly. "And you rode in the train with her, and in the stage." "I didn't see her in the train," said Hawker.
And Hawker, with his people, too," he went on darkly; "you can't tell you don't know anything about it but I tell you that what I have seen proves my assertion that the artistic mind has no space left for the human affections. And as for the dog " "I thought you were his friend, Hollie?" "Whose?" "No, not the dog's. And yet you really, Hollie, there is something unnatural in you.
The thought might have occurred to him that it was not alight, for he looked at it with a vague, questioning glance. There came another knock at the door. "Go to the devil!" he shouted, without turning his head. Hollanden crossed the corridor then to the den. "Hi, there, Hollie! Hello, boy! Just the fellow we want to see. Come in sit down hit a pipe.
I believe yes, I am sure she could be fool enough to have sympathy for you in your work. And now, if you weren't such a hopeless chump " "Oh, shut up, Hollie," said the painter. For a time Hollanden did as he was bid, but at last he talked again. "Can't think why they came up here. Must be her sister-in-law's health. Something like that. She "
The elder Worcester girl looked angrily at him. "Indeed? Not you, of course, but the others." "They are all asses," said Hollanden genially. The elder Worcester girl reflected. "I believe you try to make us think and then just tangle us up purposely!" The younger Worcester girl reflected. "You are an absurd old thing, you know, Hollie!"
"Ho!" cried Hollanden, "you're getting correct that's it exactly. You will become one of these intensely Look, Billie, the little one is going to punch him!" "No, he isn't. They never do," said Hawker morosely. "Why did you bring me here to-night, Hollie?" "I? I bring you? Good heavens, I came as a concession to you! What are you talking about? Hi! the little one is going to punch him, sure!"
"Why, he was grinding his teeth until he sounded like a stone crusher," said Hollanden in a severe tone. "What was the matter with him?" "How should I know?" she retorted. "You've been saying something to him." "I! I didn't say a thing." "Yes, you did." "Hollie, don't be absurd."
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