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She was glad that her husband should approach the situation with a solemn sense of responsibility. "They are sure to feel that," she said. "It seems to me that you are practically certain of the party nomination, and your party has a clear majority of both branches of the Legislature." Lyons glanced furtively about him before he spoke. "I don't see at the moment, Selma, how they can defeat me."
Hastings'," said Selma to the driver. The carriage drove away. She gave Ellen's message to Wetherbe and returned to the house. Victor was still unconscious; he did not come to himself until toward daylight. And then it was clear to them all that Dr. Charlton's encouraging diagnosis was correct.
Moreover Selma had repeated to him Horace Elton's prophecy that it was not unlikely that some day he would become Senator. To be sure he recognized that a remark like this uttered to a pretty woman by an astute man of affairs such as Elton was not to be taken too seriously. There was no vacancy in the office of Senator from his state, and none was likely to occur.
She thinks you are distinguished looking." "If she isn't careful, I shall make you jealous, Selma. Was there anything you didn't discuss?" "I regard you as the peer of any Morton Price alive. Why aren't you?" "Far be it from me to discourage such a wifely conclusion. Provided you think so, I don't care for any one else's opinion." "But you agree with her.
He had looked forward all day to seeing it at night, and questions relating to it had supplied a never-ceasing small change of conversation between him and her. He had let her go her way with a smile on his face. Selma did not choose to dwell on the situation, but it was obvious that Lewis continued to look glum, and that there were apt to be long silences between them at meals.
Selma was content to have it so, especially as the assertion did not jar with her own prepossessions; and thus they rode home in the summer night in the mutual contentment of a betrothal. The match was thoroughly agreeable to Mrs. Farley, Selma's aunt and nearest relation, who with her husband presided over a flourishing poultry farm in Wilton.
Such a man as that didn't need birth or wealth or even fame. He simply WAS the man worth while worth any woman's while. How could Selma be associated so intimately with him without trying to get him in love with her? Perhaps she had tried and had given up? No Selma was as strange in her way as he was in his way. What a strange original INDIVIDUAL pair they were!
He did not report at Selma, and the negro has never since been heard of. The neighbors declare their belief that the negro was killed by him. This was about the 10th of July. Mr. Higginbotham, and Threadgill, charged with killing a negro in Wilcox county, whose body was found in the woods, came to my notice the first week of August. A negro was killed on Mr.
Indeed, when Pauline had finished her letter and announced that she was now entirely at leisure, Selma felt impelled to remark: "I should think, Pauline, that you would give a course of lectures on education. We should be glad to have them at our house, and your friends ought to be able to dispose of a great many tickets."
Her moral nature was stirred to resentment, and she sat spell-bound, seeking in vain for a point of consolation. Meantime Lyons, like a good American, had sent for an evening paper, and was deep in its perusal. A startled ejaculation from him aroused Selma from her nightmare. Her husband was saying to her across the table: "My dear, Senator Calkins is dead." He spoke in a solemn, excited whisper.
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