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Langmaid, who ate his cold meat and salad with an exasperating and undiminished appetite that the only definite thing the rector had said was that he didn't intend to preach socialism. This was reassuring. "Reassuring!" exclaimed Mr. Plimpton, whose customary noonday hunger was lacking, "I wish you could have heard him say it!" "The wicked," remarked the lawyer, "flee when no man pursueth.
Plimpton had moved towards her, as if to speak, but Alison hurried past, her exaltation suddenly shattered, replaced by a rising tide of resentment, of angry amazement against a materialism so solid as to remain unshaken by the words which had so uplifted her.
But I'll do Hodder the justice to say he doesn't strike me as that kind. And I have an idea that Eldon Parr and Wallis Plimpton and the rest know he isn't, know that he'd be a Tartar if he ever get started, and that's what makes them uneasy." "Then it isn't his change of religious opinions they would care about?" said Eleanor.
When I saw Plimpton at the Country Club the other day he wondered, in that genial, off-hand manner of his, whether Hodder would continue to be satisfied with St. John's. Plimpton said he might be offered a missionary diocese. Oh we'll have a fine old row." "I believe," said Eleanor, "that that's the only thing that interests you."
Plimpton had gone off optimistic, and felt even more so the next morning after he had had his breakfast in the pleasant dining room of the Gore Mansion, of which he was now master. As he looked out through the open window at the sunshine in the foliage of Waverley Place, the prospect of his being removed from that position of dignity and influence on the vestry of St.
He's a clever man, and if he hasn't got a list of Dalton Street property now he'll have one by to-morrow, and the story of some of your transactions with Tom Beatty and the City Council." "I believe you'd joke in the electric chair," said Mr. a Plimpton, resentfully. "I'll tell you this, and my experience backs me up, if you can't get next to a man by a little plain talk, he isn't safe.
"You mean Mr. Parr?" she asked, anxiously. "No, Wallis Plimpton." "Oh!" she exclaimed, with disdain in her voice. "Mr. Parr only got back yesterday, and Wallis told me that Hodder had refused to go on a yachting trip with him. Not only foolishness, but high treason." Phil smiled.
"You look as if you'd lost a couple of bonds." "I've just seen Hodder, and he is going to do it." "Do what?" "Sit down here, at this table in the corner, and I'll tell you." For a practical man, it must be admitted that Mr. Plimpton had very little of the concrete to relate. And it appeared on cross-examination by Mr.
"Charlotte has very strong convictions, you know, and so have I. You can understand, I am sure, how certain articles of belief might be necessary to one person, and not to another." "Yes," said Phil, "I can understand. We needn't mention the articles, Wallis." And he turned his back. He never knew the pain he inflicted. Wallis Plimpton looked at the rector, who stood talking to Mr.
And missionary bishops aren't chosen to make convenient vacancies." "I don't mean anything crude," Mr. Plimpton protested. "But a word from the chief layman of a diocese like this, a man who never misses a General Convention, and does everything handsomely, might count, particularly if they're already thinking of Hodder. The bishops would never suspect we wanted to get rid of him."
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