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Updated: October 7, 2025
Then you can say your say; but" with discouraging candor "it won't change my decision a single mite. My mind is made up. A higher power than you or me has settled everything for us. We are going to Scarford to live, and we will go just as soon as we can get ready." And go they did. The captain fought a stubborn battle, surprisingly stubborn and protracted for him, but he surrendered at last.
His pipe, the worn, charred briar that he had left in the drawer of that very desk when he started for the railway station and Scarford, was in his mouth. Over the counter, beyond the showcases and the tables with their piles of oilskins, mittens, sou'westers, and sweaters, through the panes of the big front windows, he could see the road, the main street of Trumet.
When they were not entertaining callers they were calling. Captain Dan actually began to feel at home in his evening clothes; a good deal more than he did in his night clothes, so he told his wife. Breakfast, which, in the beginning of their Scarford residence, had been served at seven-thirty, was now an hour later, and even then Daniel frequently ate alone. Then came the reception idea.
Annette Black, self-confessed leader in society in the flourishing manufacturing city of Scarford, and summer resident and condescending patroness of Trumet. "Well," he observed; "we've got more chance, even in Trumet, than we've had for the last year, thanks to Aunt Laviny's three thousand. It gives us a breathin' spell, anyhow. If only trade in the store would pick up, I Hey!
"Oh, I don't know, unless the way you and Mrs. Dott are goin' in for society in Scarford. Course your child is grown up, so that's different, though, ain't it?" "Yes, and there isn't any paralysis in the family, so far as I know. That's a mercy. Don't you get paralysis, Azuba. If you do, it will take you longer to get breakfast than it does now." "That's all right.
She is president now, but she declared she would resign in a minute in my favor." For an instant Captain Dan's exuberant spirits were dashed. "She did!" he cried. "Well, if that woman ain't.... Humph! Are you thinkin' of lettin' her resign, Serena?" "No." "I I wouldn't stand in your way if you did, you know. I mustn't be selfish. Trumet ain't Scarford, and if you want to " "I don't, I don't.
Instead she turned to her husband. "Daniel," she cried, "are you going to stand this? Are you that girl's father, or aren't you? Are you going to make her mind, or not?" Daniel would have spoken, but his daughter got ahead of him. "Oh, Father doesn't count," she observed lightly. "No one minds what he says. He didn't want to move to Scarford at all. No one minds him." Serena stamped her foot.
With this comforting conclusion one indication of the mental revolution which her Scarford experience had brought about she ceased wondering and dropped to sleep. Captain Dan and Azuba had a short conference in the kitchen. "Understand, do you, Zuba?" queried the captain. "A late dinner and plenty of it." "I understand. Land sakes!
He was Aunt Laviny's butler for a good many years, and Percy was a regular visitor there. What made you ask that?" "Feminine curiosity, probably. Has our cousin many friends here in Scarford?" "Why, he seems to know 'most everybody; everybody that's in what he and your mother call society, that is." "But has he any intimate friends? Have you met any of them?" "I met one once.
"Improvements!" the visitor repeated the word involuntarily. "Improvements! You're not going to LIVE there, are you?" "I don't know. We may. Now, Daniel, don't argue. You know we haven't made up our minds yet what we shall do. And Scarford is a beautiful city. Mrs. Black has told us so ever so many times. What were you going to say, Mrs. Black?"
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