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Rightbody HAD intended to give the affair a proper attitude of seriousness and solemnity by due precision of speech, and some apposite reflections, when he should impart the news to his daughter, but felt himself unable to do it now. "I am glad, Alice," he said at last, "that you have quite forgotten your previous whims and fancies. You see WE are right." "Oh!
There was a flounder, a mis-step, a fatal strain on the wrong rein, a fall, a few plucky but unavailing struggles, and both horse and rider slid ignominiously down toward the rocky shelf. Mrs. Rightbody screamed.
This was quite absorbing; so much so, that he did not notice the footsteps of Mrs. Rightbody, on the staircase as she passed to her chamber, nor that she had paused on the landing to look through the glass half-door on her husband, as he sat there with the letters beside him, and the telegram opened before him.
Sez I, 'Not much, ole man: ye've got no time. Sez he, 'Kin I send a despatch by telegraph? I sez, 'Heave ahead. He sez, these is his dientikal words, 'Send to Adam Rightbody, Boston. Tell him to remember his sacred compack with me thirty years ago." "'His sacred compack with me thirty years ago," echoed Seventy-Four, "his dientikal words." "What was the compact?" asked Mrs.
There was a rapid descent of a hundred yards or more to this terrace-like passage; and the guides paused for a moment of consultation, cooly oblivious, alike to the terrified questioning of Mrs. Rightbody, or the half-insolent independence of the daughter. The elder guide was russet-bearded, stout, and humorous: the younger was dark-bearded, slight, and serious.
Rightbody screamed; Miss Alice raged under her breath, but scrambled to her feet again in silence. "I told you so!" said Mrs. Rightbody, in an indignant whisper, as her daughter again ranged beside her. "I warned you especially, Alice that that " "What?" interrupted Miss Alice curtly. "That you would need your chemiloons and high boots," said Mrs.
Rightbody managed to speed a messenger to the telegraph-office for a copy of the despatch received by Mr. Rightbody, but now missing. In the solitude of her own room, and without a confidant, she read these words: "To MR. ADAMS RIGHTBODY, BOSTON, MASS. "Joshua Silsbie died suddenly this morning. His last request was that you should remember your sacred compact with him of thirty years ago.
"I MUST have them, you understand," interrupted Mrs. Rightbody, "at any price. "We was about to say, ma'am," said Seventy-Four slowly, "that, considerin' all things, and you being a lady you kin have HER, papers, pedigree, and guaranty, for twelve hundred dollars." It has been alleged that Mrs. Rightbody asked only one question more, and then fainted.
Rightbody, in a regretful undertone, slightly increasing her distance from the guides. Miss Alice shrugged her pretty shoulders scornfully, but ignored her mother's implication. "You were particularly warned against going into the valley at this season," she only replied grimly. Mrs. Rightbody raised her eyes impatiently.
Rightbody anxiously. Seventy-Four looked at Seventy-Five, and then both arose, and retired to the corner of the parlor, where they engaged in a slow but whispered deliberation. Presently they returned, and sat down again. "We allow," said Seventy-Four, quietly but decidedly, "that YOU know what that sacred compact was." Mrs. Rightbody lost her temper and her truthfulness together.
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