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Updated: May 11, 2025
We who have had so many heroes, such great sailors, such splendid leaders, such explorers our Stanleys, our Farraguts, our Decaturs, our De Longs, our Lockwoods how we would stand ashamed before the world if some other nation should succeed where we have all but succeeded Norway, or France, or Russia, or England profiting by our experiences, following where we have made the way!"
Did it recall days of innocence and happiness, and did its calm beauty soothe or please, or awaken remorse in her heart? Her manner was more than ordinarily affectionate and gentle, when, presently, after pacing the walks for a half-hour, the person for whom she was waiting came to her. This was our young Virginian, to whom she had despatched an early billet by one of the Lockwoods.
I don't remember just how soon it was, but it was shortly after the formation of the firm of Graham and Duncan that the young man received his first invitation to dinner at the Lockwoods'. He accepted, of course, whether he wanted to or not, for there could be no excuse for his refusing a Sunday bid, and the Lockwoods made quite an event of it.
"Father's gone out," she said, holding a glass to the light, suspicious of the lint from her dish towel. "I know seen him down the street." The boy halted at the counter, producing a handful of square envelopes. "Josie ast me to bring it round." Betty put down her glass in consternation. From the Lockwoods?" "Uh-huh." Tracey offered it, but she withheld her hand, dubious. "For me, Tracey?"
But why is it that people who mean well almost invariably grate upon your sensibilities like the screeching of a slate-pencil? "In this case, I suspect it's a case of when Snob meets Snob. A snob, I take it, is a fellow who holds himself your superior because he looks at things in a different way. That counts me a snob in my mental attitude toward the Lockwoods.
Josie Lockwood came home again for the Easter holidays, but didn't return to finish her term in the New York school. Just why, we never discovered: the Lockwoods furnished us with no really satisfying explanation; they said that Josie didn't like New York, but I've always doubted that, especially since Josie married and insisted on moving straightway to that metropolis.
But Duncan was reticent, and the Lockwoods said little. I gathered an impression that Josie was not altogether happy in her new surroundings.... One inferred there was a difference between New York and Philadelphia, that one was less friendly and sociable than the other. Josie kept her promise and came home for Christmas.
Goin' to decyrate the grounds with lanterns an' have ice cream sent from Phillydelphy, and cakes, too. Can't make out what's come into Blinky to let that gal of his waste money like that." "I figger," says Hiram after a sapient pause, "she must be gettin' it up for thet New York dood." "Duncan?" "Uh-huh." "I didn't know he was 'quainted with the Lockwoods."
I don't believe even Josie Lockwood got more than that out of him, for if she had we would have heard of it; and Josie was unmistakably a little jealous, and undoubtedly questioned Nat. One direct result of it all was to hasten Josie's own leave-taking. It would never do to let the Grahams eclipse the Lockwoods, you see.
She's so purty and swell and old man Tuthill's so rich not like the Lockwoods, but rich, all the same an' I'm only the son of the livery-stable man, an' fat an' all that an' " "Nonsense, Tracey!" Nat interrupted firmly. "If you really want her and will follow the rules I give you, it's a cinch." "Honest, Mr. Duncan?" "I guarantee it, Tracey.
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