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"I saw him do it," she replied; realizing that, having gone so far, she must answer. "Why did he strike him?" persisted Appleton. "You might ask him that," she said and, with a defiant toss of her head, quitted the room and closed the door behind her. The Sheridans had been taken into confidence, and when the four found themselves alone they smiled knowingly.
If they had, it might have been SOMETHING! I had nothing nothing nothing in the world! I wanted to have a good time and how could I? Where's any good time among these Sheridans? They never even had wine on the table! I thought I was marrying into a rich family where I'd meet attractive people I'd read about, and travel, and go to dances and, oh, my Lord! all I got was these Sheridans!
Sheridan, having been unable to contain her solicitude several times during the day, and having been checked each time in a manner that blanched her cheek, hastened to warn Roscoe and Sibyl, upon their arrival at five, to omit any reference to the injury and to avoid even looking at the sling if they possibly could. The Sheridans dined on Sundays at five.
Ask that bugler to tell you where he found, in his glorious career as a wind instrument in the Spanish war, any Grants, Shermans, Sheridans, Logans, Pap Thomases, McClellans, Kilpatricks, Custers, McPhersons, Braggs, and hundreds of such heroes. What has the bugler got to show for his war? Shafter! And Alger!
Leslie was left first, and Acton, pleading that he was already late for another engagement, was dropped at his club. Then Norma had the car to herself, and as it smoothly flew toward the humble doorway of the Sheridans, could giggle, almost aloud, in her pleasure and exhilaration at an afternoon that had gone without a single awkward minute, all pleasant, harmonious, and vaguely flattering.
A crushing rejoinder closed this correspondence: "Madam, Lady Shuckburgh has directed me to acquaint you that she declines answering your note, the vulgarity of which is beneath contempt; and although it may be the characteristic of the Sheridans to be vulgar, coarse, and witty, it is not that of a 'lady, unless she happens to have been born in a garret and bred in a kitchen.
Nothing could be less commonplace, nothing less conventional, than his appearance in a room or in the streets. His quick, impulsive nature made him a great talker, and conspicuously convivial, yea, convivial, at times, up to heights of vinous glory which the Currans and Sheridans shrank not from, but which a respectable age discourages.
The story of the fight for his life will long be told in the engine-houses of New York, and will nerve the Kings and the Sheridans and the O'Connells of another day to like deeds. How firemen manage to hear in their sleep the right signal, while they sleep right through any number that concerns the next company, not them, is one of the mysteries that will probably always remain unsolved.
Paint had been spared for a long time, and no one could have put a name to the color of it, but in spite of that the place had no look of being out at heel, and the sward was as neatly trimmed as the Sheridans' own.
The race of 1715 was passing, the race of 1745 was coming on, and touching it is to read in the brown old letters the same loyal names Floyds, Wogans, Gorings, Trants, Dillons, Staffords, Sheridans, the Scots of course, and the French descendants of the Oglethorpe girls.
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