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Then she proceeded to give her reminiscences of the Thayers, and it did not take long for the disappointed teacher to discover that, for all practical purposes, these reminiscences were valueless. Mrs. Beasley remembered many things, but nothing at all concerning John Thayer's life in the West, nor the name of the ship he sailed in, nor who his shipmates were.
From the Thayers' summer home a glorified bungalow, broad of veranda and shingled silvery-olive, atop a long, terraced bank it had the appearance of a limitless mirror, reflecting the unblemished blue infinity of the sky.
There's a note." The note was forthwith produced. Susanna read it frowningly. It was rather conspicuously headed "Eleven-twelve!" DEAREST GIRL: Can't wait any longer. Mrs. I'm taking her up. Thayers and we lunch at the Palace at one-thirty. Wait for me in my office. "Oh, what is the matter with everything to-day!" Susanna burst out in exasperation. "He's wild, of course.
His later adventures have little concern with the story of his son's life. He sailed over many seas, he visited many lands, mellowing by contact with many peoples the unyielding temper of his race. The possibility of failure never once entered into his mind. The Thayers always had succeeded, for they always had worked.
In fact, I rather thought you merely took her up out of charity. Every one in Chelton knows that the Thayers are just poor working-people." That was too much for Cora. She stepped to the door of the tea-room with dismissal in her manner. He knew she intended him to leave at once. "But what I want to know," he said, deliberately following her, "is just who this Thayer girl is.
Asaph's fruitless quest in Orham had not shaken her faith. Captain Cy had refused to seek Debby Beasley for information concerning the Thayers, and so she, on her own responsibility, had done so. And this was the ridiculous ending of her journey. The diary had been a forlorn hope; now that was burned. Poor Bos'n! and poor some one else!
Thayer had had an appointment to see a sick friend in a hospital this afternoon. But she has gone right out there now instead, so that you and she can go shopping after lunch. You are, please, to meet Mr. Fairfax and the Thayers at the Palace for luncheon at half-past one; there'll be a table reserved. Mr.
Weren't the Thayers dear to have me as their guest at beautiful Manchester-by-the-Sea? They were two weeks of wonder for me; but I wish that he might have been there. How they all miss him even Dr. Bentley. I think that there is nothing finer than such a friendship between two men. Why, he even calls on Donald's family still. He came to Manchester twice in the fortnight that I was there. Dr.
What he don't know about Orham folks ain't wuth knowin'. If you say so, I'll pump him about the Thayers and the Richards. 'Twon't do no harm, and the old fool likes to talk, anyhow. I don't know's I ought to speak that way about my relations," he added doubtfully, "but Seth IS sort of stubborn and unlikely at odd times.
Indeed, there had been years ago a somewhat close relationship between the Thayers and the Barnards, and it was not strange if one common note was repeated generations hence. Cephas had been afraid lest Barnabas should, all unperceived in the dusk, hold his daughter's hand, or venture upon other loverlike familiarity.
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