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Some three or four others were in the same case, and the company was finally arranged to consist of the Shelldrakes, Hollins, Mallory, Eunice, Miss Ringtop, and myself. We did not give much thought, either to the preparations in advance, or to our mode of life when settled there. We were to live near to Nature: that was the main thing. "'What shall we call the place? asked Eunice.
"'Ah, sighed Miss Ringtop, 'it reminds me of Gamaliel J. Gawthrop's beautiful lines: "Unrobed man is lying hoary In the distance, gray and dead; There no wreaths of godless glory To his mist-like tresses wed, And the foot-fall of the Ages Reigns supreme, with noiseless tread."
Abel scarcely spoke, which the others attributed to a natural feeling of shame, after his display of the previous evening. Hollins and Shelldrake discussed Temperance, with a special view to his edification, and Miss Ringtop favored us with several quotations about 'the maddening bowl, but he paid no attention to them. Eunice was pale and thoughtful.
"This seemed to us a dark and bitter reflection; but one or another of us recalled some illustration of human hypocrisy, and the evidences, by the simple fact of repetition, gradually led to a division of opinion, Hollins, Shelldrake, and Miss Ringtop on the dark side, and the rest of us on the bright. The last, however, contented herself with quoting from her favorite poet, Gamaliel J. Gawthrop:
"'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.
Eunice was unpacking some loaves of bread and paper bags of crackers; and Miss Ringtop, smiling through her ropy curls, as much as to say, 'You see, I also can perform the coarser tasks of life! occupied herself with plates and cups. We men, therefore, walked out to the garden, which we found in a promising condition.
It was Miss Ringtop, who spread her blue dress on the rock beside me, and shook back her long curls, and sighed, as she gazed at the silver path of the moon on the water. "'Oh, how delicious! she cried. 'How it seems to set the spirit free, and we wander off on the wings of Fancy to other spheres! "'Yes, said I, 'It is very beautiful, but sad, when one is alone. "I was thinking of 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.
Yes, to be sure; and there was Hollins, with his clerical face and infidel talk, and Pauline Ringtop, who used to say, 'The Beautiful is the Good. I can still hear her shrill voice, singing, 'Would that I were beautiful, would that I were fair!" There was a hearty chorus of laughter at poor Miss Ringtop's expense.
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