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I have, however, somewhat wandered from my subject, which was brought up in consequence of a gentleman who had paid me every attention at a large club down at Cowes, to which I had been invited, inquiring of me, across the table, if I were connected with the Keenes of ? My reply was ready: "I did not think that I was; my father had died a young man in the East Indies.
Names of men second to those, such as Elliot and Thackeray, Hamilton and Martin, the Shakespeares and Plowdens, the Moneys, the Rosses and Keenes, crowd the honour lists.
He had promised to be a friend to Beth; but he was a delicate man, and not able to live much at Castletownrock, where the climate was rigorous; so that she seldom saw him. When Sunday-school was over, the children went up to the gallery; their pew and the Keenes', roomy boxes, took up the whole front of it. Mrs.
The Keenes were ignorant, idle, good-tempered young women, and kind to the children, whom they often took to bathe with them.
She was curled up among the fuchsias on the window-seat of the sitting-room one day, unobserved by her parents, who entered the room together after she had settled herself there, and began to discuss the Keenes. "You did not tell me, Henry, you spent all your time with them before we came," Mrs. Caldwell said reproachfully. "Why should I?" he answered, with a jaunty affectation of ease.
How should you like to come to Boston and study?" "Oh, it is my ideal!" Sylvia clasped her hands. "It is going to be, my dear. Judge Trent has promised." The young artist caught her lip in her teeth and drew a long breath. "Meanwhile you shouldn't waste time," went on Edna. "The Keenes, you know Mr. and Mrs. Keene, the illustrators, have an artist camp in the White Mountains.
One morning in early June John found in the mail a letter for Judge Trent, which he passed across to the other desk, unopened. "'M, h'm," commented the judge, taking it, "another hymn of praise from Sylvia, I suppose." He regarded the envelope meditatively. "That girl has worked well, Dunham." "The Keenes say so," returned John. "They're greatly interested in her."
She's got real Spanish eyes, aint she, Miss Combs? Like her mother's. The Keenes are all sandy. I'm not sure I'd have known you, Lola." "Oh, papa, you've been away so long! You've been kind and good to me yet " "We'll have to let bygones be bygones," declared her father, gratified to learn that she had thought him good and kind for this point had rather worried him.
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