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Trina would be married the following evening, and immediately after the wedding supper the Sieppes would leave for the South. McTeague spent the day in a fever of agitation, frightened out of his wits each time that Old Grannis left his elbow. Old Grannis was delighted beyond measure at the prospect of acting the part of best man in the ceremony.
It appeared that he was gaining a reputation as a maker of speeches, delivered with fiery emphasis, and occasionally reprinted in the "Progress," the organ of the club "outraged constituencies," "opinions warped by personal bias," "eyes blinded by party prejudice," etc. Of her family, Trina heard every fortnight in letters from her mother. The upholstery business which Mr.
LISTEN to me, will you?" "Oh, Mac, Mac," cried Trina, running to her husband. "Mac, dear, listen; it's me, it's Trina, look at me, you " "Get hold of his other arm, will you, Ryer?" panted Heise. "Quick!" "Mac, Mac," cried Trina, her arms about his neck. "For God's sake, hold up, Doc, will you?" shouted the harness-maker. "You don't want to kill him, do you?" Mrs.
On occasions they sat like this for an hour or so, "philandering," Trina cuddling herself down upon McTeague's enormous body, rubbing her cheek against the grain of his unshaven chin, kissing the bald spot on the top of his head, or putting her fingers into his ears and eyes.
So far from being stupefied, he became, after the fourth glass, active, alert, quick-witted, even talkative; a certain wickedness stirred in him then; he was intractable, mean; and when he had drunk a little more heavily than usual, he found a certain pleasure in annoying and exasperating Trina, even in abusing and hurting her.
Trina and McTeague were married on the first day of June, in the photographer's rooms that the dentist had rented. All through May the Sieppe household had been turned upside down.
In the evening they were both so tired that they were in no mood for conversation, and went to bed early, worn out, harried, nervous, and cross. Trina was not quite so scrupulously tidy now as in the old days. At one time while whittling the Noah's ark animals she had worn gloves. She never wore them now.
"Hello, Mac," exclaimed Marcus; "busy? Brought my cousin round about that broken tooth." McTeague nodded his head gravely. "In a minute," he answered. Marcus and his cousin Trina sat down in the rigid chairs underneath the steel engraving of the Court of Lorenzo de' Medici. They began talking in low tones.
McTeague did not answer, but looked intently at the blood-stained bosom of his shirt. "Mac," cried Trina, her face close to his, "tell us something the best thing we can do to stop your ear bleeding." "Collodium," said the dentist. "But we can't get to that right away; we " "There's some ice in our lunch basket," broke in Heise.
"You are getting more awkward every day, Trina," Nika said crossly. Cornelli blushed. She felt as if these words were meant for her as well. She must be just as awkward in Nika's eyes as Trina was. The latter failed to excuse herself and from embarrassment became more clumsy in her movements. Cornelli understood this perfectly; that was what she always did, she knew it quite well.
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