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Updated: June 22, 2025
Old Man Kimberly was a good sort; but to look at her you'd wonder why she married him. She always set up straight, away from a chair or a sofa back, and she had a face that was clean-cut, like one of them cameo faces on cuff buttons. Katherine was some like her pa, and a good sort too. "How sweet you look tonight!" says Old Lady Kimberly to Bonnie Bell after a time.
"Why," says Bonnie Bell, "in a real ranch there isn't a time of the day or night when you can't come and be welcome. Everybody's welcome at a ranch, you know." Old Lady Kimberly, she seemed kind of thoughtful over that; but she didn't say nothing about being slow starting. Says she: "If you'd let us come we'd all be so glad to come and sit in your ranch room it's new to us and we like it.
"Why, that Minnie Kimberly has turned Methodist." Minnie started, scarce knowing whether to leave immediately or return and proclaim her presence. "What?" cried the girls, not quite understanding what Mona meant to convey by that appellation. "Methodist," repeated Mona, quite enjoying their mystification.
Roberts," he went on, turning to the proprietor. "If it is possible to get a supply of them you would be justified in asking half as much again as we charge for African or Indian diamonds. The Kimberly products are not to be compared to these," and he looked at the two stones in his hand the one cut, and sparkling brilliantly, the other in a rough state.
I wouldn't tell him, of course; but didn't it beat all how many secrets I was getting into? Them folks didn't have so much on us, after all; for that hired man was shore a gay bird, and playing both sides the fence. I seen he was a socialist, all right but, Lord, her, with that face! Tom Kimberly he come to our house steady now.
She now had his money, his child, and her independence and he would bequeath these things unto her unconditionally; and so, he told himself that he must release her, exhaling her and breathing in others like respiration. He stuffed the five baht coin into his pocket. No, if he had loved Kimberly and Noppawan at certain times this was enough love for him in a lifetime.
Lordship made a joke of it; took up the matter as a brother ought; wrote himself to Kedge and Reck to get it settled. Brothers quarrelled; day or two, and elder was drowned, nobody seems to know how. Gorton stopped on, against orders from Kimberly; said afterwards, by way of excuse, had been served with summons to attend inquest.
And if he were so prison pent, he thought, a touch of those electrical poles would open up whatever portal Kimberly had gone into with him, with her disappearing into it and it disappearing into the oblivion of itself.
After dinner, while we was setting in the ranch room which they all liked so well and could have sherry or coffee, or both, or maybe Scotch, Mrs. Kimberly kept on saying to the old man: "Wilfred, I'm surprised!" "So'm I, my dear," says he "surprised that we've never been here all the time before. You may mark us down as steadies now," says he.
She then proceeded to read the list at the head of which stood Mona Cameron, followed by Minnie Kimberly a circumstance which was simply the fulfilment of the general expectation; but the announcement of Mona's name as the taker of the Latin prize was a matter of astonishment to all, and rather a blow to most of them, as it had been confidently expected that Minnie would take it, and to no one did it afford greater surprise than to Mona herself.
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