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You begin by sayin' it's all right and pretty soon it IS all right. It ain't all right for me it's all wrong. Why did you go to that meetin'?" "I went because I wanted to see for myself. And I saw." "Yes, you saw. And you heard, too, I'll bet you. Well, did you like it?" "LIKE it! Daddy, tell me: There is another Woman's Club in Scarford, isn't there? This can't be the only one." "No, it ain't.
Dott?" she said pleasantly. "Welcome to Scarford. You and I have never met, of course, but I used to know Mrs. Lavinia Dott very well indeed. And this is Mr. Dott, I suppose. How do you do? And here is my husband. Oscar, these are our new neighbors." Mr. Fenholtz and the captain shook hands. Captain Dan felt his embarrassment disappearing under the influence of that hearty shake.
I'd like to be in with nice people, cultivated people, intelligent, up-to-date society, where I could have a chance to go on and be somebody. I'd like to be a leader. I could be. Annette says I would be in a city like Scarford. She says I 'have the faculty of the born leader. All I lack is the opportunity." Her husband sighed. He had heard all this before. Inwardly he wished Mrs.
Course I didn't pay much attention then; I judged you wouldn't think of sellin', but " "Stop! stop, Daniel! You are so excited it makes me nervous again to hear you. I wasn't thinking of the house at all. The way I feel now I had as soon sell it as not. But that isn't it. I can't leave Scarford. I can't!" Daniel's enthusiasm faded. There was determination in his wife's tone. He sat down again.
"I expected it. I was almost certain that Mother would want to live in Scarford. Mrs. Black has been telling her all summer about society and club life and what she calls 'woman's opportunity, and Mother has come to believe that Scarford is Paradise. You will have to go, I think, Daddy dear. Perhaps it is just as well.
She is my best and dearest friend. If it were not for her I should not have come to Scarford at all. It would be treachery of the meanest kind. No, Mrs. Lake, I am not that kind of a friend. No." "But " "Please don't speak of it again. I am ashamed even to hear you. Let's talk of something else." But Mrs. Lake did not want to talk of anything else. She urged and argued and pleaded in vain.
I have come home and I am needed. I shall not go back. It is only the last half term, anyway." "Yes, but then's when the girls have all their best times, all the dances and and entertainments and society times. You said so. Do you want to miss all those?" Gertrude smiled. "Oh," she observed, "I expect to have a great many 'society times, as you call them, right here in Scarford.
The Palatine House was new and gorgeous; built in the hope of attracting touring automobilists, it was that dreary mistake, a cheap imitation of the swagger metropolitan article. Scarford was not a metropolis, and the imitation in this case was a particularly poor one. However, to the Dotts, its marble-floored lobby and gilded pillars and cornices were grand and imposing.
B. Phelps accompanied his wife when the latter called to discuss the Canby invitation. His coming was unusual, the Dotts had seen comparatively little of him since their arrival in Scarford. Daniel was glad he came. Black and he were not altogether congenial; the captain would not have chosen him as an intimate; but at least there would be someone present with whom he could exchange a word. Mr.
If we hadn't gone to Scarford if ... Daniel, I'm going to her." She rose. Her husband laid a hand on her arm. "Sit down, Serena," he urged. "Sit down." "But, Daniel, let me go. I must go to her. The poor girl! Perhaps I can comfort her, though how, I don't know. John Doane!" with a burst of indignation. "If I ever meet that young man I'll give him my opinion of his " "Sshh! shh! Serena!
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