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I suppose that in stating them I shall somehow make myself responsible for them, but that is just what I don't want to do. I don't want to do anything more than give them as they were given to me." "You won't be able to give them half as fully," said Minver, "if Mrs. Ormond gave them to you." "No," Wanhope said gravely, "and that's the pity of it; for they ought to be given as fully as possible."
But you needn't make a show of sparing him. I couldn't stand that." "I certainly haven't heard the story," I said, "and if I had I would be too polite to own it." Minver's brother looked towards the open door over his shoulder, and Minver interpreted for him: "She's not coming. I'll give you due warning."
It's easy enough to build up a report of that kind on the half-knowledge of rumor which is all that any outsider can have in the case." "So far," Minver said, with unbroken tranquillity, "as any such edifice has been erected, you are the architect, Rulledge. I shouldn't think you would like to go round insinuating that sort of thing.
For every bashful man, there must be a bashful woman," Wanhope returned. "Or a bold one," Minver suggested. "No; the response must be in kind, to be truly complemental. Through the sense of their reciprocal timidity they divine that they needn't be afraid." "Oh! That's the way you get out of it!" "Well?" Rulledge urged.
This is getting too much for the romantic Rulledge." "Rulledge can bear up against the facts, I guess, Minver," Halson said, almost austerely. "Her father died two years ago, and then she had to come East, for her aunt simply wouldn't live on the ranche.
"He did leave you at an anxious point, didn't he?" Halson smiled to the rest of us at Rulledge's expense, and then said: "Well, I think I can help you out a little. Any of you know the lady?" "By sight, Minver does," Rulledge answered for us. "Wants to paint her." "Of course," Halson said, with intelligence. "But I doubt if he'd find her as paintable as she looks, at first.
She implied that he was morally as well as physically gigantic, and it was as much as he could do to keep from taking her in his arms on the spot." "It would have been edifying to the groom that had driven her to the station," Minver cynically suggested. "Groom nothing!" Halson returned with spirit. "She paddled herself across the lake, and walked from the boat-landing to the station." "Jove!"
Halson had put him up for the winter, under the easy rule we had, and he had taken very naturally to the Turkish room for his after-dinner coffee and cigar. But we noticed that Minver was always a willing listener to Newton's talk, and that he sometimes hospitably offered to share his tobacco with the Bostonian.
It would be interesting to know whether there hasn't been a change in the quality of thought since the use of such stimulants came in whether it hasn't been subtilized " "Was that what you were going to say?" demanded Rulledge, relentlessly. "Come, we've got no time to throw away!" Everybody laughed. "You haven't, anyway," said I. "Well, none of his own," Minver admitted for the idler.
Minver," I said. Then she showed that she was proud of it, though she had called him silly. "Have you told," she demanded of her husband, "how oddly your memory behaved about the subject of the picture, too?" "I have again eaten that particular piece of humble-pie," Minver's brother replied.
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