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"Good-bye, Stevuns," she answered, in the same gay voice but a trifle forced if one knew her well. "I hope you have a wonderful time leading a mob somewhere and your wife selling your photographs on the next corner curbstone!" She pretended to become interested in the prayer book; and, with the Pom shooing him out by sharp, ear-piercing barks, Steve left the room. Not an hour later Mrs.
He handed her a memorandum. "You see? I earn a splendid living and I have a neat nest egg not to be despised. But I have no Italian-villa income. Your father has, so you came back to your father to take his money and I am merely a necessary accessory to the entire ensemble." His voice was bitter. "Oh, no, Stevuns!"
Papa can give it to me for my birthday if he wants to. Gifts don't count, do they, Stevuns? "Then there is the servant question.
"Miss Faithful's absence just now makes things quite rushed I'll work until late." Beatrice sprang up, letting Monster scramble unheeded to the floor. "Oh, you are trying to punish me!" pretending mock horror. "Stevuns dear, don't mind my not going! Plans are plans, you must learn to understand. And I'll send her a lovely black waist and a plum pudding for her Christmas.
I felt you were above such things, as I said, but presently little indications straws, you know told me she cared; and if a woman cares for a man and is able to pass several hours each day in his employ, unless she is cross-eyed or a blithering idiot she cannot fail to win the game! Now can she, Stevuns?" Steve raised his hand in protest. "Please leave her out of it."
They could not have fooled him. I didn't know what was coming until it was too late. A get-rich-quick man always pays for his own speed!" "Stevuns, you'll make me so nervous I can't go to-night. It's a lovely party. You stay home and tell papa all about it, but leave me in peace." "Thank you, I will. And is this the sympathy and the understanding you give me when I say we are being ruined?"
Then you do reciprocate and you are planning one of those ready-to-be-served bungalows with even a broom closet and lovely glass doorknobs, where Mary may gambol about in organdie and boast of the prize pie she has baked for your supper. Oh, Stevuns, you are too funny for words!" She laughed, but there was a malicious sparkle in her eyes.
From now on I shall either support you or else not live with you. I ask you to stop having a good time long enough to give me your decision." "Oh, Stevuns you funny old brutish dear!" "If it were a direct loan of money from your father it would be a different matter but it is one of those intricate, involved deals that mean more than you or I choose to admit.
He is a dangerous man, papa; really. I don't care." Constantine stopped moaning. "Look up at me." He made her lift her face from the tangle of silk bed quilts. "Do you love him?" "Why, papa, I always adored Stevuns but of course I can't give up the things to which I've been accustomed! It's so silly that I think he is queer even to suggest it don't you?"
You think I haven't studied in my own fashion. Well, if you did know the Bible intellectually, and Milton " "It sounds like a correspondence-school course. Don't, Stevuns! Do you know the latest dance from Spain the paso-doble? Of course you don't. You don't know any of the romance of the Ming Dynasty or how to tell a Tanagra figurine from a plaster-of-paris shepherdess.
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