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And there is no country in Europe except Turkey, or Spain that isn't a better home for an honest man than the United States." The Ohioan had once before cleared his throat as if he were going to speak. Now, he leaned far enough forward to catch Triscoe's eye, and said, slowly and distinctly: "I don't know just what reason you have to feel as you do about the country.
March answered, the next morning; her husband wished to begin his cure at once. Then Miss Triscoe pensively wondered if Carlsbad would do her father any good; and Mrs. March discreetly inquired General Triscoe's symptoms. "Oh, he hasn't any. But I know he can't be well with his gloomy opinions." "They may come from his liver," said Mrs. March. "Nearly everything of that kind does. I know that Mr.
She bore in a sort of scientific patience his attentions to the pivotal girl, and Miss Triscoe's indifference to him, in which a less penetrating scrutiny could have detected no change from meal to meal. It was only at table that she could see them together, or that she could note any break in the reserve of the father and daughter.
He got them a doctor, against General Triscoe's will; he went for his medicines; he lent him books and papers; he sat with him and tried to amuse him. But with the girl he attempted no return to the situation at Carlsbad; there is nothing like the delicate pride of a young man who resolves to forego unfair advantage in love.
From that height they could overlook the neighboring highways in every direction, and could bring a merchant train to, with a shaft from a crossbow, or a shot from an arquebuse, at pleasure. With General Triscoe's leave, March praised the strategic strength of the unique position, which he found expressive of the past, and yet suggestive of the present.
"You don't know one note from another, my dear," said his wife. "I know the 'Washington Post." "And don't you call that American?" "Yes, if Sousa is an American name; I should have thought it was Portuguese." "Now that sounds a little too much like General Triscoe's pessimism," said Mrs.
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