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"'Candor's the order of the day, isn't it? he asked. "'Yes! 'Yes! two or three answered. "'Well, then, said he, 'candidly, Pauline, you've got the darn'dest squeaky voice' "Miss Ringtop gave a faint little scream of horror. "'Oh, never mind! he continued. 'We act according to impulse, don't we? And I've the impulse to swear; and it's right. Let Nature have her way. Listen!
You know how often we have wanted to be set on some island in the Pacific Ocean, where we could build up a true society, right from the start. Now, here's a chance to try the experiment for a few months, anyhow. "'Splendid! Arcadian! I'll give up my school for the summer. "Miss Ringtop gave her opinion in another quotation: "'The rainbow hues of the Ideal Condense to gems, and form the Real!
He bore this state of things for about a week, when his engagements to lecture in Ohio suddenly called him away. Abel and Miss Ringtop were left to wander about the promontory in company, and to exchange lamentations on the hollowness of human hopes or the pleasures of despair.
What if Eunice should suspect an attachment towards her, on my part? What if oh, horror! I had unconsciously said or done something to impress Miss Ringtop herself with the same conviction? I shuddered as the thought crossed my mind. One thing was very certain: this suspense was not to be endured much longer. "We had an unusually silent breakfast the next morning.
He bore this state of things for about a week, when his engagements to lecture in Ohio suddenly called him away. Abel and Miss Ringtop were left to wander about the promontory in company, and to exchange lamentations on the hollowness of human hopes or the pleasures of despair.
"'Oh, he may fall into the water! exclaimed Eunice, in alarm. "'He's not fool enough to do that, said Shelldrake. 'His head is a little light, that's all. The air will cool him down presently. "But she arose and followed him, not satisfied with this assurance. Miss Ringtop sat rigidly still. She would have received with composure the news of his drowning.
"Well, 't was in the early part of '45, I think in April, when we were all gathered together, discussing, as usual, the possibility of leading a life in accordance with Nature. Abel Mallory was there, and Hollins, and Miss Ringtop, and Faith Levis, with her knitting, and also Eunice Hazleton, a lady whom you have never seen, but you may take my wife as her representative....
"'Miss Ringtop! I cried, starting away from her, in alarm, 'you don't mean that that "I could not finish the sentence. "'Yes, Enos, DEAR Enos! henceforth we belong to each other. "The painful embarrassment I felt, as her true meaning shot through my mind, surpassed anything I had imagined, or experienced in anticipation, when planning how I should declare myself to Eunice.
I think he would willingly have retreated, after his return to the world; but that was not so easy. Miss Ringtop held him with an inexorable clutch. They were not married, however, until just before his departure for California, whither she afterwards followed him. She died in less than a year, and left him free." "And what became of the other Arcadians?" asked Mr. Johnson.
"'Golly! said that youth, in describing the circumstance to me, 'I had to ketch TWO porgies that day. "Miss Ringtop, who must have suspected the new relation between Eunice and myself, was for the most part rigidly silent. If she quoted, it was from the darkest and dreariest utterances of her favorite Gamaliel.
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