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It was no small plunge from the calm of St. Barnabas. 'We agree, said Lady Martin, in a note within his envelope, 'that we cannot attempt to write letters just now. We are in a whirl, mental and bodily; one bit of blue sky has just shown itself, viz. that Coley may possibly stay on with us for a week or two after the Selwyns have left us.
But when she went up into the great brilliantly lighted bedchamber at the Selwyns', and saw Mary Marcy in her perfectly fitting gown drawing on her delicate gloves, and talking with several young ladies beautifully dressed in fresh muslin and silk, the skimp skirt and sleeves, the shrunken waist and washed sash, seemed all at once very mean and shabby to Angela.
And Tom acquitted himself well, and got on famously with old Mr. King. But he didn't dare talk to Polly, but edged away whenever there was the least chance of matters falling out so that he would have to. And then it came out that the Selwyns thought of going to Munich and down to Lucerne. "And the Bernese Alps," put in Jasper, across the table. "How is that, Tom, for an outing? Can't you do it?"
It was the revolt of instinct against drilled and ingrained training, inherited and re-schooled the insurgent clamour of desire opposed to that stern self-repression characteristic of generations of Selwyns, who had held duty important enough to follow, even when their bodies died in its wake. And it were easier for him, perhaps, if his body died. He rose and walked to the window.
Vanderburgh, I don't," said Polly, "at least not on shipboard, unless it is cold." "There, now, Mamma," laughed Fanny, in a pleased way; "you'll stop teasing me about wearing them, I'm sure." Mrs. Vanderburgh turned and surveyed her daughter; but she didn't smile, and Fanny thought it as well to begin again on the old topic. "They're awfully common people, aren't they, Mamma, those Selwyns?"
"But you won't succeed, if the mischief-makers are Nelly and Lizzy Ryder, Those, girls seem to get the best of everything and everybody. Think now, for one thing, of their being acquaintances of Marian Selwyn's, and invited to her birthday party!" "Oh, well, that is family acquaintance, Anna. The Ryders have always known the Selwyns, just as we have.
As he looked over the field of carnage and saw what havoc the day had made, he thought of the Selwyns and the Thors, whose selfishness and greed were responsible for it all, and he knew that they and their kind would have to meet an awful charge before the judgment seat of God. Within touch of him lay a boy of not more than seventeen, with his white face turned towards the stars.
I had a Commerce table, and one of Whist. My company were Middletons, Bostons, Townshends, and Selwyns.
The Selwyns, Sara and Elisabeth, Miles Herrick and the Lavender Lady were all there, and, in addition, there was a large and light-hearted contingent from Greenacres, where Audrey was entertaining a houseful of friends. Only Garth had not yet arrived.
He is peculiar, but not at all common, and he has many good qualities as a man; and I like the boy immensely." "How can you?" Mrs. Vanderburgh gave a little high-bred laugh. "They are so insufferably common, Mr. King, those Selwyns are." "Excuse me," said Mr. King, "that was the Earl of Cavendish; it will do no harm to mention it now, as they have gone." "Who who?" demanded Mrs.
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