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When the appreciative tourist arrived, Phelps was ready, as guide, to open to him all the wonders of his possessions; he, for the first time, found an outlet for his enthusiasm, and a response to his own passion.
There was a church-clock down at Woking which struck the quarters, and I thought more than once that it had stopped. At last however about two in the morning, I suddenly heard the gentle sound of a bolt being pushed back and the creaking of a key. A moment later the servants' door was opened, and Mr. Joseph Harrison stepped out into the moonlight." "Joseph!" ejaculated Phelps.
By this time nearly all our heads were touching over the table, except the one they called the bookkeeper, who had run for a chart. "Did he call the island by any particular name?" inquires Mr. Phelps. "I think he said Pleasant Island," says Tom, "because I mind the old gentleman saying it must be a pleasant place with such a name and I said I had been there, but the holding ground was poor."
"You'll hurt his feelings." But the donkey only laughed harder, and Sunny Boy began to laugh, too, and he woke up laughing to find that it was morning and that he had been dreaming about the donkey. Sunny Boy saw Perry Phelps in Sunday school that afternoon, but Jerry had not come with him. "Jerry is so cross!" declared Perry. "He hardly speaks to me, and I'm glad he is going home to-morrow."
The death of Phelps, about ten days before, had attracted nation-wide attention because of the heroic fight for life he had made against what the doctors admitted had puzzled them a new and baffling manifestation of coma. They had laboured hard to keep him awake, but had not succeeded, and after several days of lying in a comatose state he had finally succumbed.
Professor Charles Foster Kent the Henry Drummond of Yale and Professor William Lyon Phelps counselled a square deal and fair play. The Yale Union had a stormy meeting. A real sensation was on their hands; there was possible censure and probable glory and every man in the Union went after his share. It was indignantly moved and carried that the president of the Union introduce the speaker.
Moreover, General Butler's esteem for General Phelps was deep and sincere; and those who know the General well will readily understand how repugnant to his nature is the abrupt change from warm friendship to open hostility. But to recur to my question, What did General Butler do?
He was big, red, and loud, and he planted himself with the air of a man about to demolish his deadliest foe. "So you are Miss Phelps. Well, I've wanted to meet you. I read a piece you wrote in a magazine. It was about Our Town. It did not please Me." I bowed with the interrogatory air which seemed to be expected of me.
Some of the older ones shook their heads and wondered what old Colonel Selden Phelps would say if he could say anything. And the spirit of progress and improvement reached even to the grounds. Zenas Third toiled with spade and pruning-knife and bundles of shrubs and plants came from Boston and were set out with lavish prodigality.
Emerson and Other Essays, John Jay Chapman. Robert Louis Stevenson, L. Cope Cornford. Modern Novelists, William Lyon Phelps. Makers of English Fiction, W.J. Dawson. "Art of Stevenson," North American Review, 171: 348-358. "Criticism," Dial, 30:345. May 18, 1901. Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk, Robert Louis Stevenson. The Adventure of the Hansom Cab, Robert Louis Stevenson.
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