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"Hold on," said Talbert, gripping my knee and looking grave for a moment, "just you wait. I need you badly enough or else the telegram never would have gone to you. I'll tell you about it after supper. Till then, never mind or, rather, no matter; for it's nothing material, after all, but there's a lot in it for the mind."
Clark, of Company G, and lieutenant J.L. Talbert fell dead, and many others wounded. The Second and Eighth had climbed the mountains, and advanced on Harper's Ferry from the east. The Second was commanded by Colonel Kennedy and the Eighth by Colonel Henagan.
Talbert she is the best one to talk to first, and tell her just what you have told me, and it is just possible that she can explain it to Peggy," I went on. "I I think I could do that myself if I only had the chance," he said, ruefully. "Well, then I'll try to make the chance. I won't promise that I will make it, because I can't answer for anybody but myself.
"You won't," I said, "when you have talked to me five minutes." "Sha'n't I?" he asked, dully. He said nothing more, and we pursued our way to the hotel in silence. Elizabeth Talbert and Dr. Denbigh talked enough to make up for us. Aunt Elizabeth made herself so charming, so acutely charming, that I heard the boy draw one quick, sharp breath.
Temple, our new neighbor, who had seemed a sensible body to me, had some sort of a falling-out with Aunt Elizabeth, who pretended that Mrs. Temple was jealous of her! After Mrs. Temple had gone home, Elizabeth Talbert went around pleased as Punch and swore us all to solemn secrecy never to tell any one about "Mrs. Temple's absurd jealousy." "You needn't worry about me, Aunt Elizabeth," I said.
In five minutes I was in Aunt Elizabeth's room, and had turned the key upon an interview which was briefer but more startling than I could possibly have anticipated. Elizabeth Talbert is one of those women whose attraction increases with the negligee or the deshabille. She was so pretty in her pink kimono that she half disarmed me. She had been crying, and had a gentle look.
The worst of it was, everybody knew about it. It would have been twice as easy for the child if she could have borne it alone, but Elizabeth Talbert watched the mail like a cat, and even manoeuvred to try and get the letters before Peggy, while Alice went around with her nose in the air, and I heard Maria saying to Ada: "What's all this about Harry Goward's not writing?"
Or probably Maria, with her great head for business oh, Maria, I grant you, is like what the French critic said of the prophet Habakkuk, "capable de tout." But why puzzle any longer over that preposterous telegram? If my friend Talbert was in any kind of trouble under the sun, there was just one thing that I wanted to get to him as quickly as possible.
"I admire Miss Elizabeth Talbert very much indeed, but I never really thought of being seriously engaged to her." "Ah!" said I, icily. "And did you think of being frivolously engaged to her?" "I not only thought of it," said Goward, "but I was. It was at the Abercrombies', Mr. Price. Lily that is to say, Aunt Elizabeth " "Excuse me, Mr. Goward," I interrupted.
There was that poor child staring at the letter as if she could eat it, and then at me. I dared not open the letter before her. We were out on the porch. I said: "Now, Peggy Talbert, you keep quiet, and don't make a little fool of yourself until you know you have some reason for it.
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