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Johnston concerning her father's condition had not arrived; and she had seen the gay people from Ravenel coach past her as she sat alone on the Chestnut Ridge. For nearly a week she had been sleeping badly, awakening every hour or two through the night with something something that could not be put aside pressing upon her soul.
At Turkey Creek Halliday was talkative, Garnet overflowed with information, Captains Champion and Shotwell were boyish, and Colonel Proudfit got tight. They ate cold fried chicken and drank "Whew! stop, stop! I can't take Why, half that would" etc. "Where's Mr. Ravenel?" "Who, Jeff-Jack?
Loud words came up the stairs. "Your son stepped down into the street, Judge," said Ravenel. The next instant the three rushed out and down the stairway. John had gone down to see the two armed bands move off. They had been gone but a few minutes when he noticed General Halliday, finely mounted, come from a stable behind the hotel and trot smartly toward him.
The frank innocence of childhood was still hers. Lord Ravenel looked after her and sighed. "It is good to marry early; do you not think so, Mr. Fletcher?" "I wonder," he said, dreamily, "I wonder whether I shall ever find it." I asked him it was by an impulse irresistible why he had never married? "Because I never found any woman either to love or to believe in.
Holbrook were like a brother and sister to him, and nothing could exceed the kindness he received under their roof. One young friend who had been his pupil, and to whom he was much attached, Dr. St. Julian Ravenel, was constantly at his bedside. His care was invaluable, for he combined the qualities of physician and nurse.
Moreover, for all the old General's activities he had kept himself poor; almost as poor as he was incorruptible; who could envy him? And Ravenel; Ravenel was still the arbiter of political fortune, but it was part of his unostentatious wisdom never to let himself be envied.
Guy looked steadily at his father, in his own straightforward way; hesitated then apparently made up his mind. "I did not tell you because he wished me not; not till you understood him as well as I do. You knew him yourself once but he has wisely dropped his title. Since he came over to me in America he has been only Mr. William Ravenel."
"Why, look at the droves of ow own people!" laughed Captain Champion at the laying of the corner-stone. And after it, "Yes, Mr. Fair's address was fi-ine! But faw me, Miz Ravenel, do you know I liked just those few words of John March evm betteh?" "They wa'n't so few," drawled Lazarus Graves, "but what they put John on the shelf." The hot Captain flashed. "Politically, yes, seh!
The name, as she spoke it, was a remonstrance. "Mademoiselle Dulany," Dermott answered, "indeed you've a wrong conception of the matter. There is to be no stage play or newspaper work in the case. It will be quietly adjusted. The Ravenels are not people to permit any publicity. There will be compromises. Mrs. Ravenel, I hope, need never know the facts in the case.
But when he sought to make light of "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," he could not quite hide the exasperation of a spirit covered with their contusions; and when he spoke again, he frowned. Mrs. Garnet observed Ravenel with secret concern.
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