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"He only thinks of himself and that railroad." But Austen read between the lines. "Poor old Judge," he would answer; "it's because he's made that way, Phrasie. He can't help it, any more than I can help flinging law-books on the floor and running off to the country to have a good time.
"He only thinks of himself and that railroad." But Austen read between the lines. "Poor old Judge," he would answer; "it's because he's made that way, Phrasie. He can't help it, any more than I can help flinging law-books on the floor and running off to the country to have a good time.
She wants to bring her piano; it has a better tone than ours. MR. A. Certainly! Little Miss Hilda there will soon be strumming her scales on the old one, and Mary and Cis will send me to sleep in the evening with hers. E. Oh! MR. A. Why, Phrasie, what's the matter? E. This is a blow! Cicely is only coming to be bridesmaid, and then going back to board at Kensington and go on with her studies.
"How do you know?" he asked, as though he were merely curious. "Because I'm a woman, and she's a woman," said Euphrasia. "Oh, she didn't confess it. If she had, I shouldn't think so much of her. But she told me as plain as though she had spoken it in words, before she left this room." Austen shook his head again. "Phrasie," he said, "I'm afraid you've been building castles in Spain."
And their she has a way of scolding you, just as Sarah Austen had, that you'd never suspect." "Did she scold you Phrasie?" asked Austen. And the irresistible humour that is so near to sorrow made him smile again. "Indeed she did! And it surprised, me some coming right out of a summer sky. I told her what I thought about Hilary, and how he'd driven you out of your own mother's house.
Victoria caught her breath. "Yes," continued Euphrasia, "the mountain was alive for her. 'He's angry to-day, Phrasie. That's because, you lost your temper and scolded Hilary. It's a queer thing, but there have been hundreds of times since when he needed scoldin' bad, and I've looked at the mountain and held my tongue.
"I don't know about that," said Euphrasia; "she hadn't put up with Hilary for forty years, as I had, and seen what he'd done to your mother and you. But that's what she said. And she went for you herself, when she found the doctor couldn't go. Austen, ain't you going to see her?" Austen shook his head gently, and smiled at her. "I'm afraid it's no use, Phrasie," he said.
You served 'em right when you made 'em pay that Meader man six thousand dollars, and I told Hilary so." She paused, and stared at Austen fixedly as a thought came into her head. "You ain't leavin' him because of this trouble, are you, Austen?" "Phrasie," he said, "I I don't want to quarrel with him now. I think it would be easy to quarrel with him."
It is so fortunate that I had not closed the treaty for the house at Brompton, so that I can come whenever Phrasie decides on leaving you. MR. A. And she must not be long delayed. She and Holland have waited for each other quite long enough.
"Now, Phrasie," he said, lifting her chin a little, "you know you don't care any more about money than I do." "Lord help me," she exclaimed, "Lord help me if I didn't! And as long as you don't care for it, and no sense can be knocked into your head about it, I hope you'll marry somebody that does know the value of it.
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