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Black at Scarford, or China, or anywhere, provided it was not Trumet. His wife heard the sigh. "There, Daniel," she said; "I won't be complaining. I try not to be. But," she hesitated, "there is one thing I'd like to ask, now that we've got your Aunt Lavinia's three thousand: Don't you suppose I could have some new clothes; I need at least two dresses right away."
Azuba dismissed the past with a scornful sniff and a wave of the hand. "Trumet!" she repeated. "Trumet ain't nothin'. Nobody's anything in Trumet. We're in Scarford now, and Scarford's a progressive, up-to-date place. We've all changed since we've been here, and I'm changin' much as anybody.
"Yes." "And Annette Black " "She was the moving spirit in the whole of it, I'm certain." "My Godfreys! And she and she well, I guess maybe Serena'll be willin' to go back to Trumet NOW. She wanted to go before; 'twas only loyalty to that gang that kept her from goin'. She's sick of society, and sick of politics, and sick of Scarford.
If I had only known! Oh, WHY did you let things reach this state? Why didn't you stop it?" "Stop it? Stop what?" "Oh, everything. Don't you remember that I told you to send for me if you needed me? To send at any time and I would come? And don't you remember that I wrote you if you felt this moving to Scarford was wrong to say no and stick to it? Why didn't you do that?"
It was written in pencil in Hapgood's neat, exact handwriting and was, compared to Mr. Ginn's labored scrawl, very easy to read. And this was what the captain read: "MISS GERTRUDE DOTT, "No. Blank Avenue, "Scarford, Mass. "Why haven't you written? Did you receive my letters? The firm are sending me on urgent business to San Francisco. I leave to-night.
Judging by what I have seen and learned so far, I am likely to need a great deal of patience in this house, and I can't waste any. Mother has gone head over heels into this precious Ladies of Honor work of hers, hasn't she?" "We-ll, she's terrible interested in it, of course; but she's so smart anyhow, and here in Scarford she's got the chance she's been lookin' for."
I shouldn't wonder if you knew her. She has spent most of her time in Europe lately, but her home, her American home, was where you live, in Scarford." This statement caused a marked sensation. Mrs. Black gasped audibly, and leaned back in her chair. B. Phelps evinced his first sign of interest. "What!" he exclaimed. "Mrs. Lavinia Dott, of Scarford? You don't say!
"Well, she shan't have it on my desk. Annette Mrs. Black, I mean said it was ridiculous. If such a thing happened in Scarford the audience would have hysterics. Would you want your wife to make a spectacle of herself, before those Boston delegates, standing behind a white whale, and a dirty white at that! Gertie, I shall be at the depot to say good by, but I must be at that lodge room first.
No, Daniel, I don't know what we shall do yet awhile. But, one thing I AM sure of you and I will go to Scarford and LOOK at that house, if nothing more. Now, don't argue, please. We're almost at the meeting. Be sure you don't tell anyone how much money we've got or anything about it. They'll all ask, of course, and they'll all talk about us, but you must expect that.
His name? I ought to know it well's I know my own. It's it's Starvation, or somethin' like that. Somethin' about bein' hungry, anyhow. Hungerford, Percy Hungerford, that's it!" Gertrude looked surprised. "Not Percy Hungerford of Scarford!" she cried. "What sort of a man is he? What does he look like?" "Looked like a picked chicken, last time I saw him.
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