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"Don't mention it," says I. "I ain't got any personal grudge against Mr. Bloom; but I've been achin' to see someone hand him a pat, just for greens. There's my name on the door." "Oh!" says the young woman. "Then you're Professor McCabe? Well, we're the Morans, Millie and Tim. Tango is our line." I can see Elisha P. shudder visible at that. He hesitates a second, and then comes to the front.
"There is one way, Gregory, in which I don't think it ought to be done," she said. "You assumed Mr. Wyllard's obligations when you took the farm, and I think you should keep the two Morans." Hawtrey started. "Ah!" he replied. "Mrs. Hastings has been setting you on; I partly expected it." "She told me," Agatha admitted. "Unless you will look at the thing as I do, I could almost wish she hadn't.
"Why really, you know, I I couldn't do such a thing." "Case quashed then," says I. "I'm too bashful to go alone." "But you know," says he, "I came here merely on a matter of business." "Yes, we'll get to that pretty soon," says I. "Our friends here are only goin' to stop until the travelin' is safer." Then I turns to the Morans. "Dancers, eh!" says I. "Where have you been on?"
Room 57 contains a number of Edwin Abbey's finely illustrative paintings, the most popular of which is his "Penance of Eleanor," and a collection of his splendid drawings; also important canvases by Theodore Robinson and John La Farge. Room 64 covers a wide sweep, from Church's archaic "Niagara Falls" down to Stephen Parrish, Eakins, Martin, the Morans, Hovenden, and Remington.
"I'd rather p'etend it's Christmas in other houses even if we ain't it!" mourned Bennet. "Be my little man and woman," admonished Mis' Mortimer Bates. At the Morans, little Emily Moran made an unexpected deduction: "I won't stay in bed all day Christmas!" she gave out. "Stay in bed!" echoed Mis' Moran. "Why on this earth should you stay in bed?"
Course, he tries to close the deal outright; but the option is as far as I'll go. For weeks after that, though, I carried four hundred on the books with a minus sign in front. Then I crossed it off altogether. Not a word from the Morans. Nothing doing in the way of buying booms around Sucker Brook.
"There have been many Dutch marriages among the Morans." "That is a different thing. The Dutch, as a race, have every desirable quality. The English are natural despots. Rem was quite right last night. I saw and felt, as much as he did, the quiet but sovereign arrogance of young Hyde. His calm assumption of superiority was in reality insufferable.
The girls had their first dances at the Belvedere Club; Rachael met them all, who were later to be her neighbors: the Morans and Parmalees, the Vanderwalls and the Torrences, and the Chases. She met Clarence Breckenridge and his wife, and the exquisitely dressed little girl who was Billy to-day.
Neither the Gregorys nor the Morans consequently appeared at the tea, but Rachael, meeting all inquirers on the Moran terrace, late in the afternoon, with the news that Dicky was quite all right, no harm done, asked prettily for details of the affair they had missed. She told herself that the past really made no difference in the radiant present, but she knew it was not so.
If she suggested brightly that they go over to the Parmalees' or the Morans' and see if the young people were playing tennis, she knew that Charlotte would delicately negative the idea: "They've got their sets all made up, M'ma, and one hates to, unless they specially ask one, don't you know?" They might go, of course, and greet their friends decorously, and watch the game smilingly for a while.
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