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It was gray, hard as steel, forceful, but so far from being cold it seemed to glow and change with an inner fire, The bartender impression was swept into limbo forever. "That's one good reason why," said Calhoun Bennett, when this man had gone on. But Markle overflowed with a torrent of vituperative profanity. His face was congested and purple with the violence of his emotions.
Still, as any thing that prejudices the minds of people against us, tends to destroy our usefulness, it is our duty to take all proper care of our reputations, even to the sacrifice of a little feeling in doing so." Thus argued with by her husband, Mrs. Comegys, after turning the matter over in her mind, finally concluded to go and see Mrs. Markle.
The frightened women, and still worse frightened children, no sooner saw the "dust-brown ranks" of the head of Morgan's column than they beat a hasty retreat down the alley to the house of Dr. Markle, the village physician.
She had found out much about those archvillains Felix and Hortense Markle by an assumption of supreme dullness. But no one of her acquaintances had ever seen Josie assume the role of a skittish, dressed-up miss, painted and brazen, talkative and impertinent. "I'm just dying to go on the stage," she continued. "I get awful tired of pounding out a living on the typewriter.
Comegys instantly became like crimson; and she turned her head away to hide the confusion into which this unexpected allegation had thrown her. As soon as she could command her voice, she said "You will, of course, give me the author of this charge." "You are entitled to know, I suppose," replied Mrs. Markle. "The person who originated this report is Mrs. Grimes.
Markle to ask for explanations, the latter received a note in the following words: "MADAM. I have no doubt you have acted according to your own views of right in dropping as suddenly as you have done, the acquaintance of an old friend. Perhaps, if you had called upon me and asked explanations, you might have acted a little differently.
Comegys could do to keep from retiring instantly, and without a word, from the house. But she compelled herself to go through with what she had begun. Mrs. Markle did, indeed, offer her hand; or rather the tips of her fingers; which Mrs. Comegys, in mere reciprocation of the formality, accepted. Then came an embarrassing pause, after which the latter said
It seemed that an individual there present, Markle by name a tall, histrionic, dark man with a tossing mane conceived himself to have been insulted by some one whose name Keith did not catch, and had that very afternoon issued warning that he would "shoot on sight." Some of the older men were advising him to go slow.
It was exceedingly painful, but the path of duty was before me, and I walked in it without faltering." Mrs. Grimes was neither so clear-sighted, nor so well satisfied with what she had done, as all this. She left the house of Mrs. Markle feeling very unhappy. Although she had been using her little unruly member against Mrs.
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