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"Of course," said John, squaring his handsome figure; as if he always went in hot, and as if smoke was the very thing he had pushed like, for years. "I shouldn't wonder if you and I" Gamble began again, but the train started, they took the smoker and found themselves with Halliday, Shotwell, Proudfit, and a huge Englishman, round whom the other three were laughing.
Proudfit laughed with manly glee, and offered no other interruption. "Well, seh, then it come Jeff-Jack's turn to keep his word the best he could." "Which he's done," said Gamble. "Yes, Jeff-Jack got still anotheh bill brought in an' paassed. It give the three thousan' to Rosemont entieh, an' authorized the three counties to raise the fifteen hund'ed a year by county tax." The Captain laughed.
"I think the plainer-faced you are, the simpler you'd ought to be dressed. I use' to fix up terrible ruffled, but when I see I was reg'lar plain-faced I stuck to henriettas, mostly gray " "Calliope," I said resolutely, "you don't mean you're not going to the Proudfit party?" She clasped her hands and held them, palms outward, over her mouth, and her eyes twinkled above them.
The General and Proudfit were pushing into the lattice doors of a fragrant place whose bulletin announced "Mock Turtle Soup and Venison for Lunch To-day." March joined them. "Had your lunch, John? I heard you were looking for me." "Well, yes, but there's no hurry."
"But, Colonel Proudfit," he said Proudfit paused "you'll not insist on the word 'steal?" "You can call it what you damn please, sir, but you mustn't do it." The speaker passed out, leaving the door invitingly ajar. The General caught John's arm "Wait, I want to see you." "I'll be back in a minute, General." "My boy, the grave's full of nice fellows going to be back in a minute.
The matter not to follow Proudfit too closely was this: The Construction Company, paid in advance, and in the Land Company's second-mortgage bonds, for its many expensive and recklessly immature works, had promptly sold those bonds to a multitude of ready takers near and far, but principally far.
They were good to me time an' time again they've told me their home was mine, too. But now it wouldn't be the same. I know 'em. They always were cruel proud an' cruel pious. Mis' Proudfit, she use' to set up goodness an' worship it like a little god." This judgment startled me, and yet to its import I secretly assented.
Ordway again, and I sat often with her in the music room at Proudfit House and listened to her glorious voice in just the songs that I love. Sometimes she would send for her little Viola, so that I might sit with the child in my arms, for she was one of those rare children who will let you love them. "I like be made some 'tention to," Viola sometimes said shyly.
Then Calliope and Mis' Toplady and Mis' Holcomb and the three newcomers hurried all but abreast to the kitchen to "see what they could find"; and when Mis' Proudfit and Miss Clementina and Delia More had taken their places at the burdened table, we all sat about the edge of the room no one would share in the feast, every one having to "get right back" and asked of the journey, and gave news of Friendship Village in the long absence.
Proudfit suggested, with the proper anathema, to go back and take a re-invigorator with Vice-President March. But the pleasant Shotwell said: "You forget, Colonel, that ow a-able young friend belongs to Gideon's ba-and, now, seh." Proudfit made a vague gesture of acknowledgment.
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