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He kept about eighty acres that was off in some piece by itself, but the three hundred that had the old brick house on it, and the big barn that went, and Dryfoos bought him a place in Moffitt and moved into town to live on the interest of his money. Just What he had scolded and ridiculed everybody else for doing. Well, they say that at first he seemed like he would go crazy.
His ambition stopped at nothing, nothing but the question of expense; there he had to wait the return of the elder Dryfoos from the West, and Dryfoos was still delayed at Moffitt, and Fulkerson openly confessed that he was afraid he would stay there till his own enthusiasm escaped in other activities, other plans.
"I fancy proximity doesn't count for much in New York," March suggested. Mrs. Mandel said: "That's what I tell Miss Mela. But she is a very social nature, and can't reconcile herself to the fact." "No, I can't," the girl pouted. "I think it was twice as much fun in Moffitt. I wish I was there now." "Yes," said March, "I think there's a great deal more enjoyment in those smaller places.
Horn, in the same polite murmur she had used with Christine; but she said nothing to either sister about any future meeting. They were apparently not troubled. Mela said over her shoulder to the student of human nature, "The next time I see you I'll give it to you for what you said about Moffitt."
"She would be very glad to see you." "Then we'll come some night this week, if you will let us. When do you expect your father back?" "Not much before Christmas. He's trying to settle up some things at Moffitt." "And what do you think of our art editor?" asked March, with a smile, for the change of subject.
They began to tell of the wonders of their strange land in an antiphony of reminiscences and descriptions; they unconsciously imputed a merit to themselves from the number and violence of the wells on their father's property; they bragged of the high civilization of Moffitt, which they compared to its advantage with that of New York.
"There was a fellow," Dryfoos explained, in an aside to March, "that was getting up a history of Moffitt, and he asked me to let him put a steel engraving of me in. He said a good many prominent citizens were going to have theirs in, and his price was a hundred and fifty dollars.
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If you're not in a hurry, though " "Not in the least. Go on as long as you like." "I met him there in the office of a real-estate man speculator, of course; everybody was, in Moffitt; but a first-rate fellow, and public-spirited as all get-out; and when Dryfoos left he told me about him.
"She would be very glad to see you." "Then we'll come some night this week, if you will let us. When do you expect your father back?" "Not much before Christmas. He's trying to settle up some things at Moffitt." "And what do you think of our art editor?" asked March, with a smile, for the change of subject.
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