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Rockharrt was at home. Little Cora became the constant companion of the grandmother, who found her well advanced in learning for a child of seven years. She could read, write a little, and do easy sums in the first four simple rules of arithmetic. A school room was fitted up on the first floor back of the Rockhold mansion. A nursery governess was found by advertisement.
The procession of carriages passed until it reached the Rockharrt residence, opposite the government mansion, where the committee took leave of the governor-elect and his bride, who entered their temporary home alone, to be received and attended by obsequious servants. There we also will leave them. Visitors to the inauguration were arriving by every train.
Rockharrt will be able to travel by the first of November, and he should then take her to Florida. But, you see, he pooh-poohs the whole suggestion. Well 'A willful man must have his way," said the doctor, as he took up his hat and bade the lady good-by.
"But you know, as we all know, that she was engaged to you! Yes; and she shall keep her engagement. I'll see to that!" "Pardon me, Mr. Rockharrt, I am grieved to say that you have made a mistake. The lady was right. There was no engagement, between Mrs. Rothsay and myself at the time you made that announcement, nor has there been one since, nor, I fear, can there ever be."
"Wasted ammunition, eh, Cora?" "I do not know," replied the young lady. And then the increasing talk and laughter all around the table rendered any tete-a-tete difficult or impossible. And now began the toast drinking and the speech making. It need not be told how Mr. Rockharrt toasted the bride, how the chief justice responded in behalf of his late ward, how Mr.
"The highest and the two lowest to be partners?" inquired Rose, as she lifted half the pack. "Of course, that is the rule." Each person cut in turn, and fortune favored Mrs. Stillwater to Mr. Clarence, and Cora to Mr. Rockharrt. Then they cut for deal, and fortune favored Mr. Rockharrt. The cards were dealt around.
This lovely vale was watered by a merry, sparkling little river called the Whirligig, which furnished the power for the huge machinery of the great firm of Rockharrt & Sons, proprietors of the Plutus iron mines and the North End foundries, which supplied the mighty engines on the great lines of railroad from the East to the West, and whose massive buildings, forges, furnaces, store-houses and laborers' cottages occupied all the ground between the foot of the mountain and the banks of the river, on both sides of the Whirligig, at the upper or north end of the valley, where a substantial bridge connected the two shores.
They stood in a silent group, believing him to be asleep, and afraid to sit down, lest a chair should creak and wake him up. In a few seconds, however, they heard him clear his throat, knew that he was awake, and went up to his bedside. Rose spoke, gently, for all. "You sent for us, Mr. Rockharrt. We are all here, and we hope that you are much better," she said. "Oh, you do!
To be brief, the bill was soon taken up by the senate; and after much the same treatment it had received in the assembly, it came safely through the ordeal, and was passed again by a small majority. Old Aaron Rockharrt was triumphant, in his sullen, dogged and undemonstrative way.
Takes three hours to dress, and I want a hot lunch got up in twenty-five minutes, at longest. Any small game?" "Uncommon fine partridges, sir." "Then have a dozen dressed and sent up, with proper accompaniments; and lose no time about it! Also put a bottle of Johannisberg on ice." "Yes, sir." The waiter vanished. "I must bid you good-by now, Mr. Rockharrt," said the duke, rising.
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