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Pasmer, whom she continued to rend in a thousand pieces and scatter to the winds till she had to stop breathless. "Yes! it's quite as I expected! She did everything she could to trap you into it. She fairly flung that poor girl at you.
"Well," she said at the end, "he's a sweet young fellow. I hope he likes his Pasmers." "I guess there's no doubt about his liking one of them the principal one." "Yes, if she is the principal one." There was an implication in everything she said that Dan Mavering had been hoodwinked by Mrs. Pasmer. Mature ladies always like to imply something of the sort in these cases.
Brinkley had told her husband, with the necessity her sex has for putting its superlatives before its positives; but she was pale and thin, and she moved with a languid step when they all met at night after Mrs. Brinkley had kept out of the Pasmers' way during the day. "She has been ill all the latter part of the winter," said Mrs. Pasmer to Mrs.
"Yes," said the girl, in a sympathy with her mother in which she did not always find herself. But when Mavering, whom their tacit treaty concerned, turned toward them, and put himself in charge of Alice, Mrs. Pasmer found herself dispossessed by the charm of his confidence, and relinquished her to him.
If it had been in Dan's mind to take part in the rite, Mrs. Pasmer was quite ready at this point to embrace him with motherly tenderness. Her tough little heart was really in her throat with sympathy when she made an errand for the photograph of an English vicarage, which they had hired the summer of the year before, and she sent Alice back with it alone.
I said I thought we ought to go and speak to them, they seemed stranded there; but she didn't seem to see it; and, when I persisted, she said, 'Well, you go if you think best; but take me to mamma. And I supposed it was all right; and I told Mrs. Pasmer I'd be back in a minute, and then I went off to those women. And after I'd talked with them a while I saw Mrs.
"Besides," he added, with dignity, and a burlesque of marital special pleading which every wife and husband recognised, "I always sit with my feet out so, and I always will, so long as I've the spirit of a god." "Isn't he delicious?" buzzed Mrs. Pasmer, leaning backward to whisper to Mrs.
I hoped you were going," continued the young man, speaking with his eyes on Mrs. Pasmer, but with his mind, as she could see by his eyes, on her daughter. "No, no." "Oh, do go, Mrs. Pasmer!" he urged: "I wish you'd go along to chaperon us." Mrs. Pasmer accepted the notion with amusement. "I should think you might look after each other. At any rate, I think I must trust you to Mr.
"Oh, some one would be sure to tell him," retorted the Professor's wife, "and he'd better hear it from a friend." The young fellow laughed again, and then he shook hands with some ladies going out, and asked were they going so soon, from an abstract hospitality, apparently, for he was not one of the hosts; and so turned once more to Miss Pasmer.
They were not inconsolably sorry to have her prove unkind; and their mother found in the probable event another proof of their father's total want of discernment where women were concerned, for the elder Mavering had come home from Class Day about as much smitten with this mysterious Miss Pasmer as Dan was.
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