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She summoned young Hoskin into her dowager presence, and, with a manner heavily maternal, she warned him against the lightness of his fiancée. When he refused to believe evil of her she produced a pathetic letter full of half-confessions, which the girl herself had written to her in a moment of expansion. A week later the young man's body was washed ashore near Yokohama.
Thus condemning his foolish fancies he strode downtown again. He knew where Hoskin & Marl's was. He had been in the place. When he reached the department store he marched straight in, meaning to have an immediate interview with the girl at the lace counter. Tunis Latham suffered all the timidity of the average man when he got into the maze of that department store.
She wondered who was nursing him there must be some one there.... The hansom stopped. She got out and knocked. The door was opened by a young woman who looked like a servant, but Mildred was not deceived by her appearance. 'One of his models come to nurse him, she thought. 'I have heard, she said, 'that Mr. Hoskin is ill. 'Yes, he is very ill, I'm sorry to say. 'I should like to see him.
'Shall I see you again? 'I don't think I can come again. She'll be here. 'Mildred! What difference can it make? 'We shall see. ... The door opened. Ellen came in, and Mildred got up to go. 'I hope you've enjoyed your walk, Miss Gibbs. 'Yes, thank you. I haven't been out for some days. 'Nursing is very fatiguing. ... Good-bye, Mr. Hoskin. I hope I shall soon hear that you're better.
This girl who had usurped her name and identity had already succeeded in doing just that! The girl from Hoskin & Marl's halted, the wrathful flush came back into her pretty, insipid face, and she almost screamed: "What's got into you folks? Are you all crazy? Why, that fellow knows who I am well enough! I bet he brought that girl here himself and palmed her off on you."
Yaé was sorry to hear of the accident; but she had long ceased to be interested in Hoskin, the reticence of whose passion had seemed like a touch of ice to her fevered nerves. But this was Baroness Miyazaki's opportunity to discredit Yaé, to crush her rival out of serious competition, and to degrade her to the demi-monde.
'Oh, dear me, this seems rather alarming! she exclaimed, stopping before the crowd of easels, the paint-boxes, the palettes on the thumbs, the sheaves of brushes, the maulsticks in the air. She glanced at the work, seeking eagerly for copies, worse than any she was likely to perpetrate. Mr. Hoskin assured her that there were many in the gallery who could not do as well as she.
"They tell me they sell most everything you could name in those stores," Prudence said reflectively. "Heaps of dry goods, I suppose. Let me see, what did you sell, my dear?" "I'm in the laces," said Ida May. "But Hoskin & Marl sell lots besides dry goods." "Oh, yes! Annabel did say something about automobiles and and plasters; didn't she, Ira?" "Goodness knows," rejoined her husband with a groan.
This is very sad, I'll send some more flowers for the coffin. Good morning. But a light came into Ellen's eyes, which Mildred did not like. 'Well, she said, 'I hope you're satisfied. He died thinking of you. I hope you're satisfied. 'Mr. Hoskin and I were intimate friends. It is only natural that he should think of me. 'We were happy until you came... you've made dust and ashes of my life.
But beneath this exterior there lay a deep, true nature, which found expression in twilit landscapes, the tenderness of cottage lights in the gloaming, vague silhouettes, and vague skies and fields. Ralph Hoskin was very poor: his pathetic pictures did not find many purchasers, and he lived principally by teaching.
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