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They had stopped, on the Brünig, for luncheon, and there had come up for them under the charm of the place the question of a longer stay. Mrs. Stringham was now on the ground of thrilled recognitions, small sharp echoes of a past which she kept in a well-thumbed case, but which, on pressure of a spring and exposure to the air, still showed itself ticking as hard as an honest old watch.
Frank and his comrades took advantage of the fair weather to make observation of the two forts, Hatteras and Clark, which command the situation. These were constructed by the rebels, but had been captured from them by General Butler and Commodore Stringham, in August, 1861, and were now garrisoned by national troops.
Stringham, it was plain, spoke by book, and it brought into play again her appreciation of what she related. "She's magnificent." Densher again gravely assented. "Magnificent!" "And he," she went on, "is an idiot of idiots." "An idiot of idiots." For a moment, on it all, on the stupid doom in it, they looked at each other. "Yet he's thought so awfully clever."
The thought was terrifying to the timid ones, who straightway hid their clothing, and began carrying the contents of their cellars, smoke-houses, and corn-cribs into the woods, as they had done when the news came that Butler and Stringham had reduced the fortifications at the Inlet; but, on this occasion, Mrs.
If he were public she'd be willing, as I understand, to help him; if he were rich without being anything else she'd do her best to swallow him. As it is, she taboos him." "In short," said Mrs. Stringham as with a private purpose, "she told you, the sister, all about it. But Mrs. Lowder likes him," she added. "Mrs. Condrip didn't tell me that." "Well, she does, all the same, my dear, extremely."
The idea of "people" was not so entertained on Milly's part as to connect itself with particular persons, and the fact remained for each of the ladies that they would, completely unknown, disembark at Dover amid the completely unknowing. They had no relation already formed; this plea Mrs. Stringham put forward to see what it would produce.
"If it drives you away to escape us. We want you not to go." It was beautiful how she spoke for Mrs. Stringham. Whatever it was, at any rate, he shook his head. "I won't go." "Then I won't go!" she brightly declared. "You mean you won't come to me?" "No never now. It's over. But it's all right. I mean, apart from that," she went on, "that I won't do anything I oughtn't or that I'm not forced to."
"What is then," she asked, "your impression?" Mrs. Stringham's impression seemed lost in her doubts. "How can he ever care for her?" Her companion, in her companion's heavy manner, sat on it. "By being put in the way of it." "For God's sake then," Mrs. Stringham wailed, "put him in the way! You have him, one feels, in your hand." Maud Lowder's eyes at this rested on her friend's.
Her interest had risen; her friend saw her, as within some minutes, more enrolled and inflamed presently felt in her what had made the difference. Mrs. Stringham, it was true, descried this at the time but dimly; she only made out at first that Maud had found a reason for helping her.
She's to stay. I come to her." "I see, I see," said Densher, who indeed did see saw the sense of his friend's words and saw beyond it as well. What Mrs. Stringham had announced, and what he had yet expected not to have to face, had then come.
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