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She was proceeding to lead him toward Miss Tarrant when Olive Chancellor rose abruptly from her chair and laid her hand, with an arresting movement, on the arm of her hostess. She explained to her that she must go, that she was not very well, that her carriage was there; also that she hoped Miss Birdseye, if it was not asking too much, would accompany her to the door.
She beckoned her friend apart. 'You'll be surprised. Who do you think is here? 'No one that will bore us, I hope. 'Mr. Tarrant. I met him near the post-office, and he stopped me. Nancy frowned. 'Are they all here again? 'No; he says he's alone. One minute, mamma; please excuse us. 'He was surprised to see you? said Nancy, after reflecting. 'He said so.
"Well, I guess I have about as much business as you have to make it." Then he added, "You are just the very man she wants to keep out." "I don't think Miss Tarrant wants to keep me out," Ransom returned. "I don't know much about her, she hasn't hired the hall. It's the other one Miss Chancellor; it's her that runs this lecture." "And she has asked you to keep me out?
But that shall very soon be put right. Your marriage shall be made known at once. 'Known to whom? 'To the people concerned to your guardians. 'Don't trouble yourself, she answered, with a smile. 'They know it already. Tarrant half closed his eyes as he looked at her. 'What's the use of such a silly falsehood? 'I told you I had gone through a good deal more than you imagined.
It was better that his interference should be accompanied with all the forms of chivalry. Olive took no notice of his remark as to how she herself might be affected by his visit; but she asked in a moment why he should think it necessary to call on Miss Tarrant.
Gracie seemed inclined to make the sturdiest protest. "Look here, Miss Tarrant; do you want to save Harvard College, or do you not?" he demanded, with a humorous frown. "I didn't know you were Harvard College!" Verena returned as humorously. "I am afraid you are rather disappointed in your evening if you expected to obtain some insight into our ideas," said Mrs.
At the distance of six and ten miles from Point Tarrant were two other inlets, the latter of which was large and received Mr. Pasco's name. It was examined for a short distance in a South by West direction, and presented the usual low banks lined with mangroves.
Miss Chancellor and Miss Tarrant had sat by her there, without moving, each of her hands in theirs, and she had just melted away, towards eight o'clock. It was a lovely death; Doctor Prance intimated that she had never seen any that she thought more seasonable.
Considering how prejudiced he must have been he was certainly behaving very well; even at that distance Miss Birdseye dimly made out that there was something positively humble in the way he invited Verena Tarrant to seat herself on a low pile of weather-blackened planks, which constituted the principal furniture of the place, and something, perhaps, just a trifle too expressive of righteous triumph in the manner in which the girl put the suggestion by and stood where she liked, a little proudly, turning a good deal away from him.
Mary might take a rather larger house it needn't be much larger in a part convenient for you. We should be able to pay her enough to set off against her increased expenses. Smoking calmly, Tarrant shook his head. 'Impracticable. Do you mean that this place is too dull for you? 'It isn't lively, but I wasn't thinking of the place. If you lived here, it would be all I should wish.
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