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We knew that it would belong to the Proudfits, since for us in Friendship there exists no other motor, and moreover this one was standing at my gate. Abel went out there and came back to tell us that the car had been in town to fetch the Proudfits' lawyer, and that Madame Proudfit had kindly sent it for Delia "and spoilt everything," he added frankly.
Of course, there's an awful shrinkage here, but all our home people have made net gains unless it is Proudfit; I eh Johanna, you needn't stay in here; only don't go beyond call." The maid closed the door after her, took her accustomed rocking-chair and needle on the stair-landing, and being quite as human as if she had been white, listened.
How I'm to meet this issue God only knows, but who'll even try to do it if I don't? Halliday's too far off. Ravenel looks on as silent as a gallows! Proudfit poor old Proudfit hasn't been sober since the day he got home.
Oh, he's over yonder pickin' blackberries no, he seldom ever touches he has to be careful how he Yes, sometimes he disremembers." In town again, Halliday led the way to the public grammar and high schools. Garnet mentioned Montrose boastfully more than once. "Why don't we go there?" asked one of the projectors, innocently. "Oh ah wha'd you say, Colonel Proudfit?
Fannie wanted to say that Proudfit had no means except his wife's, but was still because a small rosy spot on either cheek-bone of the invalid was beginning to betray the intensity of his thought. She would have motioned to John to tell no more, if she could have done so unseen by Ravenel. However, the bridegroom himself turned the theme. "Are you going down there before you go East?"
Some ten days before, in London, having just ended a four weeks' circuit through a region of the Continent where news of Suez was even scarcer than emigrants for Widewood, he had, to his astonishment, met Proudfit. The colonel had just arrived across.
The Jews closed their stores. Proudfit had gone home. Enos had met a brother and a cousin, and come back with them. John March, with his hat on, sat alone at his desk with Fair's and Leggett's letters pinned under one elbow, his map under the other, and the verbal counsels of Enos, General Halliday, and Proudfit droning in his ears. He sank back with a baffled laugh.
They went off, Linda with only the clothes she was wearin' an' none of her stone rings or like that with her. An' see what it all done see what it done. Jason Proudfit, he wouldn't forgive 'em nor wouldn't hear a word from 'em, though they say Mis' Linda wrote, at first, an' more than once. An' then when he died two years or so afterwards, an' Mis' Proudfit tried everywhere they wa'n't no trace.
Linda Loneway. I made a picture of her name. So, Calliope having come from above stairs where I had heard her moving about as if in some search, I think that I recognized, even before I lifted my eyes to it, the photograph which she gave me. It was as if the name had heard me, and had come. "It's Linda," Calliope said. "It's Linda Proudfit.
When once or twice he let his warm horse walk and his thought seek rest, the approbations of Proudfit and Shotwell, Parson Tombs, the president of Suez University, and such Oh! they only filled him with gaspings.
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