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McKaye's message, Nan had written the booking agent explaining that she had been called West on a matter which could not be evaded and expressed a hope that at a later date the "time" might be open to her. Following her return to the Sawdust Pile she had received a brief communication stating that there would be no opening for her until the following year.
In some unaccountable manner, it appears that you three ladies have aroused in Nan Brent a spirit of antagonism " "Nonsense!" "The idea!" "Fiddlesticks!" "I state the condition as I found it. I happen to know that the girl possesses sufficient means to permit her to live at the Sawdust Pile for a year at least." "But isn't she going away?" Mrs. McKaye's voice rose sharply.
A reorganization of the Club in 1908 made membership dependent upon real ability, and since that time Farquahar's Recruiting Officer, ; Barrie's Admirable Crichton, ; Gogol's Inspector, ; Percy McKaye's Scarecrow, , and Barrie's Alice Sit by the Fire, , are fairly representative of the plays given.
But I know him so well that I have little difficulty in anticipating his desires. I am acting under Mrs. McKaye's promise to you over the telephone to reimburse you." "I am glad to know that, Mr. Daney. I have a very high regard for Donald's father, and I should not care to convict him of an attempt to settle with me on a cash basis for declining to marry his son.
It had been Donald McKaye's intention to go up to the logging-camp on the first log-train leaving for the woods at seven o'clock on Monday morning, but the news of Dirty Dan's plight caused him to change his plans. Strangely enough, his interview with his father, instead of causing him the keenest mental distress, had been productive of a peculiar sense of peace.
"Hector McKaye's son a river hog!" he cried incredulously. "Well, Donald McKaye's father was a river hog, wasn't he?" "Oh, but times have changed since Hector was a pup, my boy. Why, this is dreadful." "No, Mr. Daney. Merely unusual." "Well, Donald, I think your father will raise the ante considerably in order to avoid that added disgrace and force you to listen to reason."
The news this evening is most encouraging thanks to you, I'm told so we are permitted to see Donald for five minutes. Nellie, my dear, you remember little Nan Brent, do you not?" Mrs. McKaye's handsome mouth contracted in a small, automatic smile that did not extend to her eyes. She acknowledged Nan's "Good-evening, Mrs.
Following Hector McKaye's departure, Nan sought this bench until she had sufficiently mastered her emotions to conceal from her father evidence of a distress more pronounced than usual; as she sat there, she revolved the situation in her mind, scanning every aspect of it, weighing carefully every possibility.
The list of plays presented includes, She Stoops to Conquer, ; The Knight of the Burning Pestle, ; Cranford, ; Euripides' Alcestis, , in which the classical entrance to Alumni Memorial Hall was used most effectively; Prunella, ; The Piper, ; and in 1919, Percy McKaye's A Thousand Years Ago.
"In plain English," the worthy lady replied brutally, "it is." "I see your point of view very readily, Mrs. Daney. Your apprehensions are ridiculous almost pathetic, Don McKaye's great sympathy is alone responsible for his hardihood in noticing me, and he is so much too big for Port Agnew that it is no wonder his motives are misunderstood. However, I am sorry his father is worried.
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