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Tears ran down to meet the corners of her mouth, but her lips were looped up in a smile. The cat regarded her through green eyes slit down their middle. Toward the rear of the stove the pan of water seethed. Suddenly Mrs. Meyerburg leaned forward with a great flash across her face. "Simon," she cried, leaning to the door and stretching forward quavering arms. "Simon, my darling!"
Meyerburg's eyes and she laid her cheek to the brown fur collar, a tear dropping to it. "You'm right, Mrs. Fischlowitz, I I can't give this up. I he a coat he bought once for me at auction when he oser could afford it. I you must excuse me, Mrs. Fischlowitz." "That's right, Mrs. Meyerburg, for a remembrance you should keep it." Then brightening: "But I got in the next room, Mrs.
Immediately the great, disheveled table, brilliantly littered with crystal, frumpled napkins, and a great centerpiece of fruits and flowers, was in the confusion of disorganization. Daughters-in-law and husbands moved up toward a pair of doors swung heavily backward by two servants. Mrs. Isadore Meyerburg pushed her real-lace bodice into place and adjusted the glittering lizard.
Beneath the fine linen Miss Meyerburg dug with her toes into the mattress, her head burrowing deeper and the black mane of her hair rippling backward in maenadic waves. "If you don't let me alone, ma, if you don't just let me lay here in peace, I'll scream. I'll faint. Faint, I tell you," and smothered her words in the curve of her elbow. Mrs.
Meyerburg?" "I tell you what! I this afternoon my Becky, Mrs. Fischlowitz, she she ain't so well and like always can't take with me a ride in the Park. Such such a cold that girl has got. How I should like it, Mrs. Fischlowitz, if you would be so kind to to take with me my drive in in your new coat." "Ja, ja, I know, Mrs.
Meyerburg dropped into the overstuffed chair beside her window, relaxing into the attitude her late years had brought her, head back, hands stretched out along the chair sides, and full of rest. An hour she sat half dozing, and half emerging every so often with a start, then lay quietly looking into space, her eyes quiet and the erstwhile brilliancy in them gone out like a light.
Your brothers are like him, fine, good men, and that's why I want the Memorial should come like a surprise, so they can have before them always that their father was the finest " Suddenly Miss Meyerburg flung herself back on her pillows, tears gushing hot and full of salt. "Oh, what's the use? What's the use? She won't understand." "Becky, baby, 'ain't you got everything what money can buy?
"Right that same nail is there yet, Mrs. Meyerburg. Oser we should touch one thing!" "I can tell you it's a great comfort, Mrs. Fischlowitz, I got such a tenant as you in there." "When you come to visit me, Mrs. Meyerburg, right to the last nail like you left it you find it. Not even from the kitchen would I let my Sollie take down the old clothes-line what you had stretched across one end."
"Oui, not serious, madame, but what I would call hysteeria and mademoiselle will not have doctor. Eef madame will come " With a great mustering of her strength Mrs. Meyerburg ran up the first three of the marble steps, then quite as suddenly stopped, reaching out for the balustrade.
In a Tudor dining-hall, long as the banquet-room of a thane, faced in thrice-weathered oak and designed by an architect too eminent to endure interference except when Miss Meyerburg had later and at her own stealthy volition installed a Pompeian colored window above the high Victorian fireplace the wide light of a brilliant New-Year's day lay against leaded window-panes, but shut out by thick hangings.
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