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"That's right!" agreed the storekeeper. "And I'm going to put up a plant to make brown sugar out of the Muddy." Lounsbury could afford to laugh with them, not being the only butt of the jokers. Fraser suffered, too. The tale had leaked by the hour of Lounsbury's arrival.
Lounsbury's breath caught with a strange, sobbing sound. "Virginia up here?" he cried. "Does she know about this " He indicated the cabin interior, and all it meant, with one sweep of his arm. "Of course not. How could she? Whether you tell her or not is a matter for you and she to decide. She's come to find you and bring you back." "My God! To the States?" "Of course."
"You think " Lounsbury's voice wavered, "you think we can get back all right ourselves?" "Sure. That is, if we start first thing to-morrow. There's a clear trail through the snow most of the way our own trail, comin' out. But it will be hard goin' and not safe to wait." "Then I suppose the horses will be sent down below, because of the snow.
"I've already talked that over with Miss Tremont," he answered quietly. "She has given the order to go on." The fleshy sacks under Lounsbury's eyes swelled with wrath. "She has, has she? I think she's already told you that I'm financing this trip, not her, and I've told you so too. I'm doing the hiring and giving the orders."
"Oh, don't go; please don't go! I've wanted to meet you for months and months. I've heard so much about you Lounsbury's told me." She gave him a quick look from under the bonnet's rim. "Mr. Lounsbury," she repeated, and stiffened her lips. "Yes." "He don't know much about me, I reckon. He ain't been to see us for 'months and months." She began to dig at the ground with the toe of a shoe.
The intellectual distinction of American critical biographies like Lounsbury's Cooper or Woodberry's Hawthorne is all the more notable because we possess such a slender body of truly critical doctrine native to our own soil; because our national literary tradition as to available material and methods is hardly formed; because the very word "American" has a less precise connotation than the word "New Zealander."
"I suppose you get a commission on every garment you sell." Bill turned rather quiet eyes on the man; and for one little instant the craven that dwelt under Lounsbury's skin told him he had said one sentence too many; but he took heart when Bill looked away. "I'll keep what I've got on," he announced. "I'm not used to being told what kind of clothes to wear. Virginia, we'll start on."
The animals were swift in obedience when he spoke to them, but they were only terrified by Lounsbury's shrill shouts. He was cool of nerve, self-possessed, wholly self-reliant. She listened with an eager gladness to his soft whistling: simple classics that she herself loved but which came strangely from the lips of this son of the forest.
A certain expression in Lounsbury's eyes, a certain square set to his jaw the very cues that guided the cattle-camp made him cautious. "Look a-here," he said to Lounsbury, assuming a conciliatory manner. "Let's talk as one gent to another. These ladies is your friends. So far, so good. But I has my rights, and I can prove that I slep' on this quarter-section three times and "
In that way we can manage to bring home something, even if it is only enough to buy a postage stamp. But I am wandering, as usual. You want to know about the dinner at the Brindlecombes'. Well, thanks to Mrs. Lounsbury's help and judgment, I had two dresses to pick from, two that seemed right for such a grand affair as I was afraid this was going to be. And I picked out a black silk, trimmed
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