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"I'd like mighty well to interview you, Miss Langdon," enthusiastically exclaimed Haines. "I hope you will some time, Mr. Haines," remarked Carolina, as she said good-by. Watching her as she turned away, Haines saw her extend a warm greeting to Congressman Charles Norton, who had advanced toward the group. "Strange how the Langdons treat him as a friend intimate one, too," he thought.
I waited. "She said: 'In a few days more he' that meant you 'he will be ruined. He imagines the worst is over for him, when in fact they've only begun." "They!" I repeated. "Who are 'they'? The Langdons?" "I think so," she replied with an effort. "She did not say I've told you her exact words as far as I can." "Well," said I, "and why didn't you go?" She pressed her lips firmly together.
He acted toward any and every attractive woman as if he were free and were regarding her as a possibility, and didn't mind if she flattered herself that he regarded her as a probability. In an aimless sort of way Miss Ellersly, after the Langdons had disappeared, left the drawing-room by the same door. Still aimlessly wandering, she drifted into the library by the hall door.
"This," said Aunt Lawrence, with marked emphasis, "may do for home dinners, but won't for an opera-party. Here it is seven. You can't change your dress before eight, and you simply can't go to the Langdons' box in that." "I'm not going to the Langdons' box." "You were, and Mr. Forrest was to dine here and take you." "Mr.
No finer prospect was to be had in all Mississippi than greeted the eye from the wide southwest porch, where on warm evenings the Langdons and their frequent guests gathered to dine or to watch the golden splendor of the dying sun. The Langdon family had long been a power in the South.
He imagines the worst is over for him, when in fact they've only begun." "They!" I repeated. "Who are 'they'? The Langdons?" "I think so," she replied, with an effort. "She did not say I've told you her exact words as far as I can." "Well," said I, "and why didn't you go?" She pressed her lips firmly together. Finally, with a straight look into my eyes, she replied: "I shall not discuss that.
Father and you are standing together to uphold the honor of the Langdons of Mississippi, and Randolph and I, no matter the cost of our former folly, want to share in that work." Before Haines could reply Senator Langdon burst into the room. "Bud! Bud!" he cried, "I've got it! I've got it!" "You've got what, Senator?" exclaimed the secretary. "That idea, my boy, that idea!
"Don't you see?" said the Senator. "I can understand there being rascals in the outside world and that they should believe your careless, foolish old father lawful game, but that he should be thought a tool for dishonest thieving by members of his own family is incomprehensible. "Randolph, my son, Carolina, my daughter, through all their generations the Langdons have been honorable.
"Your daughter is of age, madam," said I. "She will go where she pleases. And I warn you that you are deceived by the Langdons. I am not powerless, and" here I let her have a full look into my red-hot furnaces of wrath "I stop at nothing in pursuing those who oppose me at nothing!"
The secretary regretfully, sorrowfully performed these final duties and found himself stopping at various intervals to try to explain to himself how he had been deceived in both the Langdons, father and daughter. He had to give up both problems. To him neither was explainable. "I've known enough Senators to know that I'd never meet an honest one," he muttered.
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