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At 11:45 a bishop of New York City, Claude Searles of London, and intimate friends of the Harrises and George Ingram followed, till the private parlors were full. The orchestra of twenty pieces of Grand Opera House, stationed in the reception hall, played the "Largo" of Handel.
Gentlemen, have the goodness to set the ladies the example. Miss Ingram, I am sure you will not fail in evincing superiority to idle terrors. Amy and Louisa, return to your nests like a pair of doves, as you are. And so, by dint of alternate coaxing and commanding, he contrived to get them all once more enclosed in their separate dormitories.
My brother was to take my commercial birthright and I the responsibility for my whole future. I've earned nothing save an odd few shillings now and again, and all I had from my father I've somehow managed to mess away." "Good God!" shrieked Ingram. "Six thousand pounds in five years! An exemplary young man of simple habits like you! What could you have done with it all? You're not a spendthrift.
Owing to the difficulty of finding and passing the ropes to each other, from the intensity of the darkness, and the deluge of rain which blinded them, the men were not able to execute the order of the mate so soon as it was necessary; and before they could accomplish their task, or Captain Ingram could gain the deck, the wind suddenly burst upon the devoted vessel from the quarter directly opposite to that from which the gale had blown, taking her all a-back, and throwing her on her beam-ends.
"The Circassian is, sir, I am afraid," replied the mate: "pumping is of no avail; they could not keep her afloat till day-break. We must therefore, trust to our boats, which I believe to be all sound, and quit her before night." "Crowded boats in such a sea as this!" replied Captain Ingram, shaking his head mournfully. "Are bad enough, I grant; but better than the sea itself.
I never saw a more splendid scene: the ladies were magnificently dressed; most of them at least most of the younger ones looked handsome; but Miss Ingram was certainly the queen." "And what was she like?" "Tall, fine bust, sloping shoulders; long, graceful neck: olive complexion, dark and clear; noble features; eyes rather like Mr. Rochester's: large and black, and as brilliant as her jewels.
Ingram; but aren't there smaller ones?" Mrs. Ingram, a distinguished-looking, plain woman of forty, with the pleasantest smile in the world, turned quickly from the big dressing room she had just engaged, and was inspecting. "Yes, there are, Mrs. Bradley, they're in that little green row, right against the wall of the garages.
He was not quite sure whether he had been bored or amused. All the same he now felt glad he had come; he seemed to be so much more actively interested in what was to follow. Instinctively he looked at Ingram, and the novelist came to talk to him whilst the other men discussed the hygienic aspects of smoking. "Well, have you got over your temper yet?"
That was only a lady-clock, child, 'flying away home. I wish to remind you that it was you who first said to me, with that discretion I respect in you with that foresight, prudence, and humility which befit your responsible and dependent position that in case I married Miss Ingram, both you and little Adele had better trot forthwith.
"I am Constance Starr," said Connie, still more abashed by the unfaltering presence of this curious creature, who, she fully realized at last, was quite human enough for any literary purpose. "And this is my brother-in-law, Mr. Duke, and my sister, Mrs. Duke." "My name is Prince Ingram."
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