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Delia," she added, "Clementina and I find to-night that we must sail immediately for Europe, for six months or so. And we want to carry you off with us." Madame Proudfit and Miss Clementina and Delia were standing with us outside the threshold, where the outdoors had met us like something that had been waiting.
You might as well try to farm swamp lands without draining them." "Why, General, my scheme doesn't include plantations at all." "Yes, it does; Dixie's a plantation State, and you can't make your little patch of it prosper till our planting prospers can he, Proudfit?" The Colonel laughed. "No go, General; I'm not going to side with you.
Proudfit and Miss Clementina, charmingly pretty in their delicate frocks, and wholly gay and gracious. Twelve years had passed, and yet one and another said under breath and sighed, "If only Miss Linda could 'a' been here, too."
"You say, there, that Cornelius says its officers are mere tools in the power of men who have put them there; that Gamble's behind Crickwater, Bulger's behind Mattox, and he, Leggett, is behind Pettigrew yes don't interrupt, there isn't time and that Colonel Proudfit got the money to buy stock enough to elect himself president, by persuading his wife to mortgage everything she has got.
But I remember how they told us stories of their own babies, and we laughed with them over treasured sayings of long-ago lips, or grieved with them over silences, or rejoiced at glad things that had been. Regardless of the Proudfit party, we let them talk as they would, and remember.
Yet married, bound despite all incompatibilities to be shaped if not at once by choice, then at last by merciless necessity to all that Age's lines and standards, to walk wherever it should lead, partner in all its vicissitudes, pains and fates. The train moved. Mr. Fair sat with Barbara. Major Grant secured a seat beside Sister Proudfit "aha ha-ha!" "t-he-he-he-he!"
When the library door opened and Madame Proudfit and Calliope came out, a little hush fell upon us, even though none but I knew what that interval held for Linda's mother. Her face was tranquil indeed, I think it was almost as if its ancient fear had forever left it and had given place to the blessed relief of mere sorrow.
"Gentlemen, I've got to get along home. I slept at Tom Hersey's hotel last night, and haven't seen my mother yet. O eh Captain " Shotwell left Proudfit and walked away with March. Persons rarely asked advice of the ever-amiable Captain; they went by him to Charley Champion, whom he reverenced as well as loved.
With the days the plans for the Proudfit party or rather the plans of the Proudfit guests went merrily forward. It was, they said, like "in the Oldmoxon days," when the house in which I was now living had been the Friendship fairyland. Some take their parties solemnly, some joyously, some feverishly; but Friendship takes them vitally, as it takes a project or the breath of being.
And when she came back, she said nothing at all for a little, and the axe did not go on. "We mustn't tell Mis' Proudfit yet," she put it, presently, "not till we can think. I donno's we ever can tell her. The dyin' an' the disgrace an' the other name an' the hurt about Linda's needin' things ... Peleg thinks not tell her, too." "At least," I said, "we can wait, for a little. Until they come home."
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