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And then the four Carmen, Miss Tavish, Mavick, and Jack had a little supper at Wherry's, which they enjoyed all the more for the good action of visiting the East Side a little supper which lasted very late, and was more and more enjoyed as it went on, and was, in fact, so gay that when the ladies were set down at their houses, Jack insisted on dragging Mavick off to the Beefsteak Club and having something manly to drink; and while they drank he analyzed the comparative attractions of Carmen and Miss Tavish; he liked that kind of women, no nonsense in them; and presently he wandered a little and lost the cue of his analysis, and, seizing Mavick by the arm, and regarding him earnestly, in a burst of confidence declared that, notwithstanding all appearances, Edith was the dearest girl in the world.
Mavick looked weary and bored, and that a shade of abstraction occasionally came over his face as if it were difficult to keep his thoughts on the changing line. But his face lighted up a little when he took Philip's hand and exchanged with him the commonplaces of the evening. But before this he had to wait a moment, for he was preceded by an important personage.
"Why, all these years, all her life, since she was a baby, not a day, not a night, Evelyn, and now so sweet, so dear why Mrs. Mavick!" And the Scotch woman, dazed, with a piteous appeal in her eyes, trying in vain to control her face, looked at her mistress. "My dear McDonald, you must not take it that way. It is only a change. You are not going away really, we shall all be in the same city.
But it is doubtful if any artist in letters, or in form or color, ever did anything well without having in mind some special person, whose approval was desired or whose criticism was feared. Such is the universal need of human sympathy. It is, at any rate, true that Philip's story, recast and reinspired, was thenceforth written under the spell of the pure divining eyes of Evelyn Mavick.
Mavick interrupted, with good-humor, "it's about the novel. I hear that it has sold very well. And you are not certain whether its success will warrant your giving up your clerkship. Now as for me," and she leaned back in her chair, with the air of weighing the chances in her mind, "it doesn't seem to me that a writer "
"Why, no, not exactly; but a big machine grinds on regardless, and when the crash comes everybody looks out for himself." "I think I'll telegraph to Mavick." "That wouldn't do any good now. He couldn't have stopped the panic. I tell you what, you'd better go down to your brokers and see just how matters stand." And the two went down to Wall Street.
Mavick, I wouldn't have missed it," said my lord, with easy assurance; "I'd have thrown over anything to have come. James and that sort of thing." "You flatter me, my lord," replied the lady of the house, with a winning smile. "No, I do assure you, it's bang-up. Ah, Miss Mavick, delighted, delighted. Most charming. Lucky for me, wasn't it? I'm just in time."
That such a country idyl should be born amid law-books was sufficiently remarkable. It was an open secret that the scene of the story was the birthplace of the author a lovely village that was brought into notice a summer ago as the chosen residence of Thomas Mavick and his family.
The palace on Fifth Avenue was not even in her name. When she realized that, there was a scene but this is not a history of the quarrels of Carmen and her husband after the break-down. The reader would not be interested the public of the time were not in the adjustment of Mavick and his wife to their new conditions.
Mavick would ever permit Evelyn to throw away the brilliant opportunity for their daughter which was to be the crowning end of their social ambition? The mere statement of the proposition was enough to overwhelm him. That this would be the opinion of the world he could not doubt. He felt very much alone.
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