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She turned slowly, a hand resting on the table, and Calvin Stammark's senses swam. An inner confusion invaded him, pierced by a sharp unutterable longing. "Hannah," he whispered. She smiled and advanced; but, his heart pounding, Calvin retreated. He must say something reasonable, tell her that they were glad to have her back mustn't leave them again.
You might as well know this as well I'm going back with her; it'll be some gayer than these lonely old valleys or your house stuck away all by itself with nothing to see but Senator Alderwith's steers." There flashed into Calvin Stammark's mind the memory of how he had planned to possess just such cattle for Hannah and himself; he saw in the elusive lamplight the house he had built for Hannah.
Hannah went on: "And you get old without ever seeing things. There is all that you tell about going on those crowds and the jewels and dresses, the parties and elegant times; but there is never a whisper of it in Greenstream; nothing but the frogs that I could fairly scream at and maybe a church social." As she talked Hannah avoided Celvin Stammark's gaze.
I don't believe they'd let you stay in burlesque but sign you for comic opera." The blood beat angrily in Calvin Stammark's head. Whatever did Phebe mean by talking like that to Hannah just when she was to marry him! He cursed silently at Richmond Braley's fatuous face, at Mrs. Braley's endorsement of all that her eldest daughter related, at Hosmer's assumption of worldly experience.
He took her home directly after Richmond's funeral, an erratic wind blowing her soft loose hair against his face as he drove. There had been additions to Calvin Stammark's house the half story raised, and the length increased by a room.
Calvin stood gazing at him in a lowering complete surprise, at a loss for words, when the other continued with an intimation of his peculiar qualifications for matrimony, the incontrovertible fact that he could and would take care of Lucy. He stopped at the appropriate moment and waited confidently for Calvin Stammark's approval.
I reckon ma's temper don't improve with age. They kid me something dreadful about saying 'reckon, in the talent. But it's all good and a dam' sight better than 'I guess. That's all they get off me." Calvin Stammark's vague uneasiness changed to an acute dislike, even a fear of Phebe.
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