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"Oh, so so," replied the general. "But I get awful lonesome. I'm naturally a domestic man. I don't care for friends. They're expensive and dangerous. A man in my position is like a king. He can't have friends. So, if he hasn't got a family, he hasn't got noth anything." "Nothing like home life," said Presbury. "Yes, indeed," cried Mrs. Presbury.
On the other hand, a man of wealth and station needs a lady to assist him in the proper kind of life for men of his sort. So they need each other. They've got to have each other. That's the practical, sensible way to look at it." "Exactly," said Presbury. "And I've made up my mind to marry, and marry right away. But we'll come back to this later on. Presbury, you're neglecting that wine."
The final impression she made upon him was the most favorable of all. In the cab Mrs. Presbury talked out of the fullness of an overflowing heart. "What a remarkable man the general is!" said she. "You've only to look at him to realize that you're in the presence of a really superior person. And what tact he has! and how generous he is! and how beautifully he entertains!
"I owe you an apology for keeping you in suspense so long," said he. "I'm a very busy man, with interests in all parts of the world. I keep house some of 'em bigger than this open and going in sis different places. I always like to be at home wherever my business takes me." Mrs. Presbury rolled her eyes. "Isn't that WONDERFUL!" she exclaimed. "What an interesting life you must lead!"
And then she looked at Presbury and around her at the evidences of enormous wealth. The general she wondered where he had got that title led her mother in to dinner, Presbury gave her his arm. On the way he found opportunity to mutter: "Lay it on thick! Flatter the fool. You can't offend him. Tell him he's divinely handsome a Louis Fourteen, a Napoleon.
So much dignity so much simplicity so much " "Fiddlesticks!" interrupted Presbury. "Your daughter isn't a damn fool, Mrs. Presbury." Mildred gave a short, dry laugh. Up flared her mother. "I mean every word I said!" cried she. "If I hadn't admired and appreciated him, I'd certainly not have acted as I did. I couldn't stoop to such hypocrisy." "Fiddlesticks!" sneered Presbury.
When they were once more at home, and the mother and daughter escaped from him, the mother said: "I was glad to see that you put up with that wretch, and didn't answer him back." "Of course," said Mildred. "He's mad to be rid of me, but if I offended him he might snatch away this chance." "He would," said Mrs. Presbury. "I'm sure he would.
"Only the other day Millie was saying she wished she could read a biography of your romantic career." "Yes, it has been rather unusual," conceded the general with swelling chest and gently waving dollar-and-a-half-apiece cigar. "I do so ADMIRE a man who carves out his own fortune," Mrs. Presbury went on she had not obeyed her husband's injunction as to the champagne.
"It was a mere girlish flirtation very dignified and proper," he hastened to add. "I don't mean to suggest that you were at all flighty." "Thank you," said Mildred sweetly. "Are there any questions you would like to ask about me?" inquired he. "No," said Mildred. "As I understand it from my talk with Presbury you are willing to go on?" "Yes," said Mildred. The general smiled genially.
"Calm yourself, my love," said her husband. "I know Bill Siddall thoroughly. I said what would help. I want to get rid of her as much as you do and that's saying a great deal." Mrs. Presbury flamed with the wrath of those who are justly accused. "If Mildred left, I should go, too," cried she. "Go where?" inquired her husband. "To the poorhouse?"
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