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But he is such a gentleman and he has a fortune in his own name, or in trust, or something like that. It would please the Cambridge folks, and Uncle Joshua expects me to consent, and I've never disobeyed uncle's wishes, so I couldn't refuse now. And, well, if he'll wait till I'm ready, I guess it will suit me." "He'll wait all right, if he wants you, Norrie.
He was a good Republican, a follower in the wake of Norrie Simms and young Truman Leslie MacDonald. His father-in-law was both rich and moderately influential. Having lent himself to some campaign speaking, and to party work in general, he proved quite an adept.
"No, no," Miriam cried, stretching both hands toward him. "I'm not ready. Keep me. I want to stay." "Go on!" he cried, sternly, as the chauffeur hesitated. "Miss Strange is quite ready. She must go." Standing by the curb, he watched the motor glide off into the misty, lamplit darkness. He was watching it still, as it overtook the carriage in which Norrie Ford had just driven away.
Catt made the pledge for Australia. Delegates from Denmark and Norway asked for time to present the matter to their associations and a little later became auxiliaries. All the suffrage associations in existence that could be called national except that of Canada eight altogether joined the Alliance. Mesdames Minna Cauer, Germany; Agda Montelius, Sweden; Charlotte Norrie, Denmark; Mrs.
The interior patio was spacious, shaded with vines, and gay with flowers, while birds, caged or free, were singing everywhere. The rooms surrounding it were airy and cool, and adapted to American standards of comfort. In the dining-room mahogany, damask, crystal, and silver gave Strange an odd feeling of having been wafted back to the days and usages of the boyhood of Norrie Ford.
Nothing was left of Norrie Ford but the mere flesh and bones the least stable part of personality. Norrie Ford was gone not dead, but gone blasted, annihilated stamped out of existence, by the act of Organized Society. In its place the night of transition had called up some one else. "But who? ... Who am I? ... What am I?" Above all, a name seemed required to give him entity.
Such an occasion had been his night on Lake Champlain; such another was the evening when he announced to Miriam his intention of becoming Norrie Ford again. When these moments came they took him by surprise, even though afterward he was able to recognize the fact that they had been long preparing.
He would have liked to help a man in your position." "In my position? Then you know who I am?" "Yes; you're Norrie Ford. I saw that as soon as I chanced on the terrace last night." "And you're not afraid of me?" "I am a little," she admitted; "but that doesn't matter." "You needn't be " he began to explain, but she checked him again. "We mustn't talk now.
In spite of the persistency of his efforts and his assertions, he had never hitherto got nearer her than a statue on a pedestal gets to its neighbor in a similar situation but now at last they were down on the same earth together. This was more than reason enough for his taking up the cause of Norrie Ford, consecrating to it all his resources, mental and material, and winning it.
Their screams, their twang, their slang, their gossip, their jolly banter, and their gay ineptitude would have been to him like a welcome home. But he was Norrie Ford, known by name and misfortune to every one of them.
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