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Winthrop Adams would see it paid. Betty was quite overwhelmed. "I ought to give half of it to mother!" she cried. "No, no. Your mother will have all she needs. The Mannings would borrow it of her to buy more ground with. I've no patience with all their scrimping, and sometimes I give thanks that poor Elizabeth is out of it all.
Sarah Lewis was not mentally bright, and required close watching, which she certainly received at the Mannings'. Doris stood by the window with Ruth, until the baby cried, when her mother told her to take Hester out in the kitchen and give her some supper and put her to bed.
She heard this standard expression of a strong soul wrung with a critical coldness that astonished herself. She realized dimly that there was no personal thing behind his cry, that countless myriads of Mannings had "My God!"-ed with an equal gusto at situations as flatly apprehended. This mitigated her remorse enormously. He rested his brow on his hand and conveyed magnificent tragedy by his pose.
Other old colonial families that had blended with the Hathornes and Mannings in these American years were the Gardner, Bowditch, and Phelps stocks, on the one side, and the Giddings, Potter, and Lord, on the other.
The very thought enraged him and added deeply to the score that was piling up so rapidly against the scoundrel. Presently Bud's voice broke in upon his savage reverie. "Funny we didn't see nothin' of the Mannings back there," he commented. "The lady couldn't of known yuh was around." He glanced slyly at Buck.
"And now, if you please, sir, you may bring me some of that water-cress; we'll sit over there in the shade, and who cares whether Granite Basin, the Mannings, and your fellow cow-punchers, are fifteen or fifty miles away?" He brought a generous bunch of the water-cress, and stretched himself full length beside her, as she sat on the ground under a tall sycamore. "Selah!" he laughed contentedly.
The two nicest shops were Mannings' the hairdressers and Ponting's the book-shop, but Rose the grocer's, and Coulter's the confectioner's were very good. Mr. Manning was an artist.
I thought you would grieve least of all, Hester. You are stronger-brained than we Mannings, eh? I was sure the life meant so much more to you than food or raiment." "What do you mean by the life? Have I found it here, Daniel?" "No, Hester?" "I want work fit for me," I said, almost fiercely. "God made me for a good, high purpose." "I know," cheerfully.
All along he had taken the presence of the Mannings so entirely for granted that the possibility of their having left the ranch never once occurred to him. But now, in a flash, he realized that by this time, for all he knew, they might be back in Chicago. As Bud said, it certainly seemed odd that neither of them had appeared when the posse rode up to the ranch-house.
No one seemed to know who the child's mother was, as she had always lived with the Mannings, an elderly couple. "Well, we must give you a pretty part," promised Dorothy. "And I tell you, just come over to The Cedars to-morrow and Aunt Winnie Mrs. White will have it all made out for you. There, now, don't cry another tear. Come out to the tea-room with me and forget all your troubles.
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