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"Oh no, but to come together independently," she answered. "Well, that is what we have contrived in our life at home. I should have to say, in the first place, that " "Excuse me just one moment, Mr. Homos," said Mrs. Makely.
Mrs. Makely bustled up to the bedside with her energetic, patronizing cheerfulness. "Ah, Mrs. Camp, I am glad to see you looking so well this morning. I've been meaning to run over for several days past, but I couldn't find a moment till this morning, and I knew you didn't object to Sunday visits."
It is quite as simple with us, in our life as a human family." This notion of a human family seemed to amuse Mrs. Makely more and more; she laughed and laughed again. "You must excuse me," she panted, at last, "but I cannot imagine it! No, it is too ludicrous. Just fancy the jars of an ordinary family multiplied by the population of a whole continent! Why, you must be in a perpetual squabble.
Makely is too well up-to-date, as she would say, to have much of the bric-a-brac about which she tells me used to clutter people's houses here. There are some pretty good pictures on the walls, and a few vases and bronzes, and she says she has produced a greater effect of space by quelling the furniture she means, having few pieces and having them as small as possible.
"Really," said Mrs. Makely, "I thought those fellows were arrested now. It is too bad to leave them at large. They are dangerous." Young Camp left the room, and we saw him going out toward the tramp. "Ah, that's quite right," said the lady. "I hope Reuben is going to send him about his business.
Makely bubbled and babbled on, and every one waited patiently till she had done, and turned and said, toward the Altrurian: "I have ventured to bring my friend, Mr. Homos, with me. He is from Altruria." Then she turned to me and said: "Mr.
Makely, would have the courage to ask anybody to a Thanksgiving dinner, and even you ask only such easy-going house-friends as we are proud to be. You wouldn't think of giving a dinner-party on Thanksgiving?" "No, I certainly shouldn't. I should think it was very presuming; and you are all as nice as you can be to have come to-day; I am not the only great soul at the table.
If you can get him to do it." "Well, we were just talking about that. Mrs. Makely has a plan." "Yes," said the lady, turning an empty chair near her own toward me. "Sit down and listen." I sat down, and Mrs. Makely continued: "I have thought it all out, and I want you to confess that in all practical matters a woman's brain is better than a man's. Mr.
Makely, with unexpected spirit; "but I am sure that I should respect the feelings of all, rich or poor." "I am sorry if we have hurt yours, Mrs. Makely," said Mrs. Camp, with dignity. "You asked us certain questions, and we thought you wished us to reply truthfully. We could not answer you with smooth things." "But sometimes you do," said Mrs. Makely, and the tears stood in her eyes again.
Makely interrupted. "There are plenty of rich people one wouldn't wish to know at all, and who really can't get into society who are ignorant and vulgar. And then, when you come to money, I don't see but what country people are as glad to get it as anybody." "Oh, gladder," said the young man. "Well?" demanded Mrs. Makely, as if this were a final stroke of logic.
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