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"I wish I could act," put in Miss Dimmont, emphatically. "I'd go on to the stage in a minute." Mrs. Ranger looked shocked and grieved as well. "My dear," she said, "you can't realize what you are saying. The stage has always been a hotbed of immorality from the very beginning of theatrical art, and nothing can reform it." "Reform it," echoed Mrs. Staggchase, suavely; "we don't want to reform it.
"Bee will have all the Canton money, and can do as she likes." Mrs. Staggchase looked down at the carpet as if studying the pattern. "Perhaps," she returned. "What do you mean by that?" "If I know Maurice Wynne, the fact that she has money will make him very slow to speak. Besides, he has a silly crotchet in his head now.
At these last words he sat upright. "Mr. Staggchase," he said, turning toward the chairman, and speaking with sudden gravity, "do I understand that I have been summoned before this committee in consequence of the report of a servant." "I think such is the fact, Mr. Fenton," was the reply, "but of course your simple word will be received as ample exoneration."
Staggchase never forgot, although she seldom spoke of it. It formed what she would have called a background to her life, and gave her the liberty of doing many things which would have been unallowable to persons of less distinguished ancestry.
"Really, Diana," the old gentlewoman remarked, with a manner in which playfulness and earnestness were pretty equally mingled, "I don't think you ought to talk so before these girls. When I was your age, half a century ago, it wouldn't have been considered at all proper." Mrs. Staggchase laughed softly.
One must go over to Rome and rest on authority, or choose to use his reason, and be an agnostic." Mrs. Staggchase regarded him with a smile which made him flush a little. "'No doubt but ye are the people," she quoted, "'wisdom shall die with you. Yet I have known persons really of intellectual respectability who haven't found it necessary to do either." He was too wise to answer her.
He had debated in his mind what change in his conduct was advisable now that Miss Merrivale was visiting Mrs. Staggchase.
Staggchase with an uncomfortable wonder what allusions to Fred Rangely lay behind this talk, which she could not understand. THERE BEGINS CONFUSION. I Henry VI.; iv. 1. Fred Rangely began to find himself in the condition of being controlled by circumstances, instead of himself controlling them. Nor with all his astuteness could he decide how far he was being managed by Mrs.
It might not have been easy to tell how far Mrs. Sampson's subsequent career was forced upon her by circumstances, and how far it was the result of her own choice. She always represented herself as the victim of a hard fate: but her relatives, one of whom was Mr. Staggchase, declared that Amanda had no capabilities of respectability in her composition. Mrs.
Fred Rangely had called, but Mrs. Sampson had regaled her guest with such tales of his devotion to Mrs. Staggchase that Miss Merrivale received him with much coldness, and his call was not a success. Now she was impatiently waiting for the appearance of Mrs. Staggchase, who, it did not occur to her to doubt, would of course call.
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