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The Squire wondered why, as her aunt added, "I am greatly troubled. We have always been a most united family; but, dear, this this has brought home to me, as nothing else has, the breaking up of the ties which bound the South and North together. It is only the sign of worse things to come." "But, Ann," said Penhallow, "I must say" A sharp grip on his arm by Leila's hand stopped him.
Penhallow was a man slow in thinking out conclusions, but in times demanding action swiftly decisive. He had at last settled in his mind that he must leave his party and follow a leader he had known in the army and never entirely trusted. Whether he should take an active share in the politics of the county troubled him, as he had told Rivers.
He has been promising a visit for years. How pleased James will be! I wonder how the old bachelor ever made up his mind. I hope you made it pleasant, John." "I tried to, aunt." Whether James Penhallow would like it was for John doubtful, but he said nothing further. "The cities are wild about politics, and there is no end of trouble in Philadelphia over the case of a fugitive slave.
Penhallow remarked, "and the question as to who these heirs are has to be opened. For the will under which Silence Withers, sister of the deceased, has inherited is dated some years previous to the decease, and it was not very strange that a will of later date should be discovered. Such a will has been discovered. It is the instrument I have here."
I waited to hear, as I was sure I would from Uncle James. Is there evil news?" "I don't know. Here is a telegram to my care for you from Mr. Rivers. It must have been delayed and then came this letter to Mrs. Penhallow from him." "Then then there is bad news," she cried as she tore open the telegram and stood still. "What is it? you know how we all love him."
"I wonder," she reflected, "if all men are that blind, or only the heroic or unimaginative." Colonel Penhallow was detained by consultations with the Governor and by regimental work until near the close of August, when his command was hurried forward to join McClellan's army. He followed it a day later.
And yet he was a real good old man every other way. He couldn't help it someway. He tried to, but he used to say that profanity came as natural to him as breathing. It used to mortify his family terribly. Fortunately, none of them took after him in that respect. But he's dead and one shouldn't speak ill of the dead. I must go and get Mattie Penhallow to do my hair.
"Oh, but Ann, my dear Ann!" exclaimed Penhallow, not knowing what more to say, annoyed at the discussion and at her display of unnecessary temper and the entire loss of her usual common sense. She said, with a laugh in which there was no mirth, "I presume one of you will, of course, run my sewing-class?" "Ann Ann!" said the Squire.
She took the papers out mechanically, and laid them on the table. Among them was an oblong packet, sealed with what appeared to be the office seal of Messrs. Penhallow and Bradshaw. "Will you allow me to take that envelope containing papers, Miss Badlam?" Mr. Gridley asked, with a suavity and courtesy in his tone and manner that showed how he felt for her sex and her helpless position.
When the Squire first came home from Washington and wasn't like he was later, she told him, of course. Now everybody knows Pole's ways, and so the Squire he says to me he was awful amused 'Mrs. Crocker, I asked Mrs. Penhallow how Pole was going to pay her. She said she did put that at Pole, and he said it wouldn't take long to eat up that debt at Grey Pine.
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