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I think it will need that stratagem we spoke of to open them. 'You are sure that you will be in no danger from evil tongues? 'They say, What say they? Let them say, answered Mrs. Brown-Smith, quoting the motto of the Keiths. The end of July found Mrs. Brown-Smith at Upwold, where it is to be hoped that the bracing qualities of the atmosphere made up for the want of congenial society.
He liked Crawford, had taken a fancy to him on the occasion of his first visit to the town when he was a guest of the Keiths. Crawford, after Mary had suggested the idea to him, called upon the old doctor.
When the Keiths had invited him to their country home he had been delighted. They were among his oldest friends. He liked Mr Keith. He liked Mrs Keith. He loved Elsa Keith, and had done so from boyhood. But things had gone wrong.
To the westward "the Ridge" made a straight, horizontal line, except on clear days, when the mountains still farther away showed a tenderer blue scalloped across the sky. Had he turned in at the big-gate and driven a mile or so, he would have found that Elphinstone was really a world to itself; almost as much cut off from the outer world as the home of the Keiths had been in the old country.
The swift color flooded her face, but her hands remained imprisoned. "I just done tol' her who de Keiths was down in ol' Virginia, sah," burst in Neb indignantly. "I sho' don't want nobody to think I go trapsin' 'round wid any low white trash." The gray eyes and the brown, gazing into one another, smiled with understanding.
The history of two hundred years bound the Keiths to Elphinstone. They had carved it from the forest and had held it against the Indian. From there they had gone to the highest office of the State. Love, marriage, death all the sanctities of life were bound up with it. He talked it over with Gordon. Gordon's face fell. "Why, father, you will be nothing but an overseer." General Keith smiled.
What," she inquired, with the air of propounding a conundrum, "is between a live Molly and a hearse?" "Give it up!" they cried unanimously. Sally looked nonplussed, then shrieked: "Why, the pallbearers, of course!" The silly phrase caught. Thereafter, those who were acknowledged to be all right enough but not of their feather were known as "pallbearers." The Keiths were live Mollies.
Sir Walter was no relation of Marjorie's, but of the Keiths, through the Swintons; and like Marjorie, he stayed much at Ravelstone in his early days, with his grand-aunt Mrs. Keith....
So she was planning the making over and enlarging of the store front, putting in larger and better windows and strengthening the platform. She was discussing the plan with Shadrach and Zoeth when John Keith entered. The Keiths were leaving South Harniss rather early that year and the head of the family had dropped in to say good-by. Mr.
A notable acquisition to Friedrich; and to the two Keiths withal; for Friedrich attached both of them to his Court and service, after their unlucky wanderings; and took to them both, in no common degree. As will abundantly appear.
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