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Minthrop came, stopping to commend the house at every step, and then Polly, with her arm linked in her husband's, chattering volubly at the delight everything gave her; and Deena, wedged between the elder lady and the wall in cordial greeting, could not help hearing Ben welcome his wife to her own home with a sentiment she never suspected in him before.
I shall tell Mr. Minthrop you called." Stephen nodded and turned away the fates had ordained that he was to carry his secret till the morning. It had been a harassing burden in the daylight hours, but during the night it became maddening; it seemed beyond his resolution to tell Deena that the pleasure trip he had set on foot for her husband's advantage had ended in death.
Star made her adieux, followed by Deena. The Minthrop brougham was dismissed, and the ladies whirled away in Mrs. Star's electric carriage. She at once took up her parable, but this time the topic was not the care of infants. "I think a great deal of the scenic effect of an opera box," she said.
Polly arrived one bleak December day, the week before Christmas, escorted by Mrs. Minthrop and two maids, and was met at the Grand Central by her husband in a state of boyish excitement. His delight in having his wife with him once more was so genuine that Deena forgave him an amount of fussiness she never before suspected in his easy-going nature.
Ever, my dear French, Sincerely yours, BENJAMIN MINTHROP. Anger gives to the natural man a pedal impulse in plain language, he wants to kick something. Rage flows from the toes as freely as gunpowder ran out of the great Panjandrum's boots when he played "Catch who catch can" on the immortal occasion of the gardener's wife marrying the barber.
There was old Minthrop, with enough money to spoil his son, laying plans for Ben to muddle away a few millions in New York in the hope of making more; or even if, by some wild chance, the boy were successful and doubled it still one would think the place for an only son was in the same town with his parents. Of course it was their business, but when it came to dragging Mrs.
Here she shut her eyes and trembled to think of the portion of her own great fortune that might have transferred itself to the doctor's pockets if her nursery had not antedated the present school. "It may not seem very expensive to young Mrs. Minthrop to lie on her sofa and drink milk but just wait till she comes to pay for it!" "I don't believe anyone will care about the bill, Mrs.
On that she had existed for two years, and now she was waking up to new needs that stirred her like the prince's kiss. Life in the young Minthrops' dovecote soon settled down into a glorified routine. The elder Mrs. Minthrop returned to Boston, leaving Deena as her lieutenant, and perplexing her with the multiplicity of her charges; apparently Mrs.
While her own daylight hours were given to her sister, she was always pleased to be out of the way in the evening it left the lovers to themselves though she could not quite free herself from a sense of responsibility to the elder Mrs. Minthrop. Mrs. Star, who was beside Deena, gave a sniff if so fine a lady could be suspected of such a plebeian way of marking her disapprobation.
"Not at 'ome, sir," he said, in response to Stephen's request to see Mrs. Ponsonby. "Then I must see Mr. Minthrop," French insisted. The man hesitated and then relaxed his wooden expression. "I beg your pardon, Mr. French. I did not recognize you, sir. The truth is, we're a bit h'upset h'inside. Mrs. Minthrop is tuk ill, sir very sudden and we're expecting the good word every minute.
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