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And on the whole she should probably settle down in Washington, and make a home there for poor Medora, who had worn out the patience of all her other relations just at the time when she most needed looking after and protecting from matrimonial perils. "But Dr. Carver aren't you afraid of Dr. Carver? I hear he's been staying with you at the Blenkers'." She smiled. "Oh, the Carver danger is over.
Tossing it aside with a sneer, the professor informed her that Giotto had once drawn a perfect circle with one sweep of his hand. One day it rained, the weekly remittance from Harmony was overdue, Medora had a headache, the professor had tried to borrow two dollars from her, her art dealer had sent back all her water-colors unsold, and Mr. Binkley asked her out to dinner. Mr.
"Now," he said, in a low tone, "you must let me have my way if it isn't too late. Come." He led Abner toward the dining-room. "It is nothing," said Abner, on his return. "It is something, I am sure," said Edith Whyland, with great solicitude. "It is something serious, I feel certain," said Medora, pale as her dress. "Nonsense!" exclaimed Abner.
The waltz suddenly ended and the Mexican renounced Medora only a few steps beyond Abner. She came along and took a vacant chair next to Edith Whyland. "Are you enjoying it?" she asked Abner. "It is very instructive; it is most typical," he replied. The orchestra presently began again, but Medora remained in her place. "Aren't you dancing this time?" asked Mrs. Whyland.
His mother died on the next day, and Roosevelt under the sorrow of these two losses, left New York, and spent almost all his time on his ranch, the Elkhorn, at Medora. The people in Dakota looked on this Eastern tenderfoot with a little amusement, and, at first, probably with some contempt. He was, to their minds, a "college dude" from the East, and moreover he wore eyeglasses.
Suddenly three or four figures appeared on the beach, a quarter of a mile away. They had descended through one of the sandy and ravaged channelings which broke at intervals the regulated rim of the hills, and they came on toward our two strollers. Medora closed her eyes to peer at them. "Are they marching a prisoner?" she asked. "They all appear to be walking free." "Are they carrying knapsacks?"
And his fortnight with the Whylands had reconciled him to more things than wine. "Let me be proud of you," said Medora. Abner shook to his centre. Had he married a Delilah and a Beatrice in one? "And don't let's talk any more about our book than they talk of theirs," she counselled to end with.
It was true that she had recently made an interesting acquaintance in Miss Medora Ogilvy, the clever daughter of one of the planters, who vowed she loved her and swore undying friendship; but Anne needed more time to reciprocate feelings so ardent, particularly in her present state of mind.
He sat there uneasily, pressing his thumbs between his palms and his closed fingers and drawing up his feet crampingly within their shoes; yet it somewhat eased his tension to find that Medora Phillips was disposed to put Amy into a subordinate place: Amy had been but a means to an end her prime merit consisted in having given him a chance to function. Any other girl would have done as well.
"Yet he goes slam-banging around with a lot of young girls into all sorts of doubtful places?" "Oh, I've heard something about that," said Giles. "Well, you wouldn't have them in charge of a bachelor, would you?" "What's he farming for?" asked Abner, left behind with Medora. "Sentiment," she replied. "He was born down there, and has never wanted to let the old place go.
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