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Updated: June 18, 2025
A man's step came rapidly through the lower hall, ringing upon the solid floor, and sounding through the unfurnished house. "Sunderline! Thank heaven, sir, you're safe! Do you know how near you were to backing out of that confounded window? I saw you from the outside. In the name of goodness, have that place boarded up again! It shouldn't be left for five minutes."
Marion could not help talking over her shoulders, more or less, always. "Men take the world in the rough, and do the work; women help, and come in for the finishing off," said Rachel, just as Frank Sunderline changed his place and joined them. "We could not handle those, for instance," she said, with a shy, quiet sign toward the carpenter's tools, and lowering her already gentle voice.
I wish the energy was spent in bringing round the right that is used up in fitting things to the wrong." "They say there are too many women in the world altogether!" said Marion, squarely. "I guess not for all the little children," said Frank Sunderline; and his tone sounded suddenly sweet and tender.
They stopped half way, on the wide second landing where they had seen, as they went up, that the great window space was open; the boards that had temporarily covered it having been removed, and the costly panes and sashes that were to fill it resting against the wall at one side. "That is the greatest piece of nonsense in the whole house," Sunderline had said.
I think she showed young Sunderline, for that instant, out of gentler, questioning, almost beseeching eyes, a something she could not show to the whole car-full with whom at the moment of her entrance she had been in rapport, through frills and puffs and flutters, into which she had allowed her consciousness to pass.
That was just what Ray Ingraham did see; only he hardly set it down in his self-estimate at its full value. Do you perceive, story-reader, story-raveller, that Frank Sunderline was not quite in love with either of these girls? Do you see that it is not a matter of course that he should be?
It looks full of all possible pleasantness; like the cottage quarters of the army families, down at Fort Warren, that you see so white and pretty among the trees, as you go by in the steamboat." "Only they don't make it out," said Frank Sunderline, "after all. The prettiest part of it is the going by in the steamboat. Here, I mean.
Marion wanted to try Sunderline with certain new notions certain half-purposes of her own, in the latter part of this walk they would have together. Everything had led nicely up to it; when here, just at the moment of her opportunity, it became impossible to go on from where they were. An event had thrust itself in. It was not seemly to disregard it. They could not help thinking of the Ingrahams.
"It seems to me," said Frank Sunderline, "that women are getting on to the platforms nowadays, not so much for any real errand they have there, as just for the sake of saying, I'm here! I think it is very much the 'to be seen of men' motive, the poorest part of women's characters, that plays itself out in this way, as it always has done in dancing and dressing and acting, and what not.
And I believe my soul every identical child in the village's ben sent in for a brick loaf." Marion and Sunderline kept on down the Underhill road. The conversation was broken off. It was a startling occurrence that had interrupted it; but it does not need startling occurrences to turn aside the chance of talk just when one would have said something that one was most anxious to say.
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