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There is nothing in them to rouse his advertising instincts." The Dryfoos family stayed in town till August. Then the father went West again to look after his interests; and Mrs. Mandel took the two girls to one of the great hotels in Saratoga. Fulkerson said that he had never seen anything like Saratoga for fashion, and Mrs.
I have no objection to saying that I ask it from the father of the young ladies. Of course, in and for myself I should have no right to know anything about your affairs. I assure you the duty of knowing isn't very pleasant." The little tremor in her clear voice struck Beaton as something rather nice. "I can very well believe that, Mrs. Mandel," he said, with a dreamy sadness in his own.
"Well, it don't make any difference. She had to know, somehow, and now she knows." He started toward the door of the library, as if to go into the hall, where his hat and coat hung. "Mr. Dryfoos," palpitated Mrs. Mandel, "I can't remain here, after the language your daughter has used to me I can't let you leave me I I'm afraid of her " "Lock yourself up, then," said the old man, rudely.
She began with him, but skillfully transferred the close of her remark, and the little smile of menace that went with it, to his wife. "Yes," said Mrs. March, "or April, either: Talk about our east winds!" "Oh, I'm sure they can't be worse than our winds," Mrs. Mandel returned, caressingly.
Other men said these many-millioned millionaires were smart, and got their money by sharp practices to which lesser men could not attain; but Dryfoos believed that he could compass the same ends, by the same means, with the same chances; he respected their money, not them. When he now heard Mrs. Mandel and his daughters talking of that person, whoever she was, that Mrs.
"Why do I come so much?" "Yes." "Why do I Excuse me, Mrs. Mandel, but will you allow me to ask why you ask?" "Oh, certainly. There's no reason why I shouldn't say, for I wish you to be very frank with me. I ask because there are two young ladies in this house; and, in a certain way, I have to take the place of a mother to them.
"Well, Mely, child," Fulkerson went on, with an open travesty of her mother's habitual address, "and how are you getting along? Mrs. Mandel hold you up to the proprieties pretty strictly? Well, that's right. You know you'd be roaming all over the pasture if she didn't." The girl gurgled out her pleasure in his funning, and everybody took him. on his own ground of privileged character.
Christine rose and went out of the room without saying a word, and they heard her going up-stairs. Then Mela said: "I reckon the rest of us better be goun' too, father. Here, let's git mother started." She put her arm round her mother, to lift her from her chair, but the old man did not stir, and Mela called Mrs. Mandel from the next room. Between them they raised her to her feet.
"But I will say New York doesn't seem so far away, now we're here." "I'm sure you'll like it. Every one does." Mrs. Mandel added to March, "It's very sharp out, isn't it?" "Rather sharp. But after our Boston winters I don't know but I ought to repudiate the word." "Ah, wait till you have been here through March!" said Mrs. Mandel.
But Christine could not endure to think of that laugh of Beaton's, and there remained only Mrs. Mandel as authority on the spelling. Christine dreaded her authority on other points, but Mela said she knew she would not interfere, and she undertook to get round her. Mrs.
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