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But I'm not going to that," Peter said, stupidly. "Couldn't you say that you were?" she supplied, simply. "Yes, by George!" he agreed, brightening. "That fixes me! But now how about you?" "Why, I am at the Olivers'!" she reminded him. "All I have to do is walk out of the house at ten!" Their eyes met in a wild rush of triumph and hope. "This time we shall do it!" Peter said.
But all the rest was perfect; and his chief chums envied him after they had spent an evening with the Olivers. Polly and he had ceased to quarrel, and were on good, frank, friendly terms.
"A minister's time is not his own, you know." "Shall you be going to see the Olivers?" asked Isabel bluntly. "I have not considered that question. Good-night, Miss King." On his way back to the manse Alan did consider the question. Should he make any attempt to establish friendly relations with the residents of Four Winds?
From Sir Antony More's time down to that of Leíly and Kneller, the rage for portraits was continually increasing, and took largely the form of miniatures, which were painted chiefly by foreigners; notably by Hilliard and two Olivers or Oliviers, a father and son of French extraction, and by a Swiss named Petitot.
Rumor had it that not all her guests were flesh and blood, but that she had an antique mirror across which ancient occupants of the house would pass in shadowy procession at her command, and that she was wont to have the Shirleys, Olivers, Hutchinsons, and Dudleys out of their graves to hold receptions there; so a touch of dread may have mingled in the feeling that kept the populace aloof.
Another influence which hastened the Revolution was a desire to supplant the men highest in official life. There was no place in the colonial government for a Samuel Adams or a John Adams while the Hutchinsons and the Olivers were preferred. But no personal ambitions can account for the agreement of thirteen colonies having so many points of dissimilarity.
Half a dozen or more family portraits of the Olivers, some in plain dresses brown, crimson, or claret; others with gorgeous gold-embroidered waistcoats, descending almost to the knees, so as to form the most conspicuous article of dress. Ladies, with lace ruffles, the painting of which, in one of the pictures, cost five guineas.
One change had come over their life during these months which, although not explained in Polly's correspondence, concerns our little circle of people very intimately. The Olivers had been in San Francisco over a month, but though Edgar Noble had been advised of the fact, he had not come over from Berkeley to see his old friends.
Very sad, but this happy hour is not the time to say anything about it." Nothing more! "Cable reply to Malta. Altogether too bad not hearing from you," I said. A blind, hasty, cruel telegram, but thank God she never received it! Day by day it became more and more difficult for me to throw dust in my own eyes about the Olivers.
I asked Sir John and Lady Tweedie, but they were engaged so unfortunate, for they are such an acquisition. Then I asked the Olivers, and they couldn't come. You would really wonder where the engagements come from in this quiet neighbourhood." She gave a little unbelieving laugh. "I had evidently chosen an unfortunate evening for the County." It was trying for everyone: for Mr.
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