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I told him that I would be glad to accept his escort and guardianship so that I might take notes of Manhattan's grand, gloomy and peculiar idiosyncrasies, and that the time of so doing would be at his own convenience. "We'll begin this very evening," said Rivington, himself interested, like a good fellow.
Manhattan's twenty-two thousand acres of rock, lake and rolling table land, rising at places to a height of one hundred and thirty-eight feet, were covered with sombre forests, grassy knolls and dismal swamps.
At the same time he saw that which brought him to instant action. It was a rope clothes-line which ran from post to post, angling from one corner of the building to another and back to the opposite one. No man in Manhattan's millions knew the value of a rope or could handle one more expertly than this cattleman. His knife was open before he had reached the nearest post.
"I am sorry about this evening. Could you not go to Mrs. Manhattan's without me? Something always seems to turn up at the last moment." "I hardly expected you so early," Eden answered. "I sent word to Laura." She was looking at her husband, but her husband was not looking at her. He seemed preoccupied and nodded his head abstractedly. "Yes, yes," he muttered, with singular inappositeness.
Manhattan's aphorism about business and other men's wives, and to her mouth, which the smile had deserted, came a sneer. He is with her now, she told herself; well, let him be. In a sudden gust of anger she tore the sheet of music in two, and tossing it from her, turned. At the door the butler still stood, awaiting her commands. "You may go," she said, shortly.
She recalled his excuse and was mindful of Mrs. Manhattan's interpretation. At each new effort the doubt increased, and still she kept arguing with herself, until suddenly she perceived that she had stopped thinking.
Manhattan, she was a woman for whom Eden entertained a quasi-filial, quasi-sororal affection. She went forward therefore at once, her hands outstretched to greet. On ordinary occasions it was Mrs. Manhattan's custom to salute Eden with a kiss, but on this particular afternoon she contented herself with taking the outstretched hands in her own, holding Eden, as it were, at arms length.
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