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Miss Coman, who assisted Miss Hazard for one year only, and Miss Chapin, who consented to fill the office after Miss Pendleton's appointment to the presidency until a permanent dean could be chosen, were both graduates of the University of Michigan.
That any book which told, however mildly, the truth about life should have entered their daughter's bedroom would have seemed little short of profanation to both the rector and Mrs. Pendleton. The solitary purpose of art was, in Mrs. Pendleton's eyes, to be "sweet," and she scrupulously judged all literature by its success or failure in this particular quality.
He had hardly made up his mind to go at once to Gray, or send for him, when a negro boy galloped up to the stile and brought him a note from Marjorie's mother to come to her at once and the colonel scented further trouble in the air. There had been a turmoil that afternoon at Mrs. Pendleton's. Marjorie had come home a little while before with Jason Hawn and, sitting in the hallway, Mrs.
"Uncle John, as perhaps you have guessed, I love Pollyanna. I asked her to be my wife, and she consented." The elder man made a delighted exclamation, but the other did not pause, or change his sternly intent expression. "She says now she can't marry me. Mrs. Chilton objects. She objects to ME." "OBJECTS to YOU!" John Pendleton's eyes flashed angrily. "Yes.
Whether these have produced more or fewer questions of definition, I am not sufficiently informed of our judiciary transactions, to say. The acts of Assembly concerning the College of William and Mary, were properly within Mr. Pendleton's portion of the work; but these related chiefly to its revenue, while its constitution, organization, and scope of science, were derived from its charter.
Had she been, seized with terror, perhaps due to Mrs. Pendleton's insistence on her belief of murder, or had Thalassa conveyed some warning to her that inquiries were likely to be put afoot? These were questions to which Barrant felt he could find no answer until he had seen Thalassa and attempted to wrest the truth from him. He postponed his visit to Hint House until the evening.
Spatola admits he knows German; he grows suspicious when shorthand is mentioned. And to wind it up, Morris has not been seen at his apartments, his office, or by his friends, since the murder was committed." At a little unpainted railroad station, the investigator broke in on Pendleton's thoughts by calling on the chauffeur to stop.
A minute later, with only a few choking words, which she could not understand, he had left the house. From the Harrington homestead Jimmy went straight home and sought out John Pendleton. He found him in the great crimson-hung library where, some years before, Pollyanna had looked fearfully about for the "skeleton in John Pendleton's closet."
I furnished one for her, and gave the old people a quilt and a few needed garments for their kindness to Aunt Sally. They, too, had been stripped of all their large family, as well as Aunt Sally of hers. As I passed Mrs. Pendleton's front yard I saw a large bloodhound on the door-step as sentinel. Even a look at him from the street brought a threatening growl.
Barrant returned the look with a keen observation which took in the externals of the man who was the object of Mrs. Pendleton's suspicions. "You are the late Mr. Turold's servant?" he said. "Put it that way if you like," was the response. "Who might you be?" Barrant did not deign to reply to this inquiry. "Take us upstairs," he said.
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