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I will add this: that I believe that you are letting yourself be overborne, and that you will regret it some day." He made no answer. Douglas van Tuiver put an end to the discussion by rising and signalling the other launch. When it had come alongside, he said to the captain, "Mrs. Abbott is going back to the railroad. You will take her at once."
The engine and its two cars drew up, and the traveller stepped out upon the platform, followed by his secretary and his valet. I went forward to meet him. "Good morning, Mr. van Tuiver." I saw at once that he did not remember me. "Mrs. Abbott," I prompted. "I came to meet you." "Ah," he said.
That's why you would not tell me the truth!" We persuade ourselves that there are certain circumstances under which lying is necessary, but always when we come to the lies we find them an insult to the soul. Each day I perceived that I was getting in deeper and each day I watched Aunt Varina and the doctor busied to push me deeper yet. There had come a telegram from Douglas van Tuiver to Dr.
I thought this a strange procedure, but I conjectured that the doctors had become nervous as to what I might have told van Tuiver. So I dismissed the matter from my mind, and spent my time reviewing the exciting adventure I had just passed through. How much impression had I made? It was hard for me to judge such a man. He would pretend to be less concerned than he actually was.
The dear lady had got to know me quite well, at the more or less continuous dramatic rehearsals we conducted; and now and then her trembling hands would seek to fasten me in the chains of decency. "Mrs. Abbott, think what a scandal there would be if Mrs. Douglas van Tuiver were to break with her husband!" "Yes, my dear Mrs.
"You left my home of your own free will. I think I need hardly point out to you that I am not compelled to invite you back to it." "And what will Sylvia " I stopped; appalled at the vista the words opened up. "My wife," said van Tuiver, "will ultimately choose between her husband and her most remarkable acquaintance." "And you gentlemen?" I turned to the others.
I glanced at van Tuiver, and I saw that he was leaning forward, staring at me. I thought he was about to speak, when Dr. Gibson broke in, excitedly, "All this is beside the mark! We have a serious emergency to face, and we are not getting anywhere. As the older of the physicians in charge of this case " And he went on to give me a lecture on the subject of authority.
Should I recall the pretences of generosity and dignity she had made when we first met? I might have attempted this but something held me back. After all, the one person who could decide this issue was Douglas van Tuiver. I rose. "Well, I have to be going. But I'll drop round now and then, and see what success you have." She became suddenly important. "Maybe I won't tell!"
He went to call upon Bishop Chilton, and sat in his study, with its walls of faded black volumes on theology. Van Tuiver himself had had a Church of England tutor, and was a punctilious high churchman; but he listened respectfully to arguments for a simpler form of church organization, and took away a voluminous exposé of the fallacies of "Apostolic Succession."
The fact that the bride's father was the richest man in his own section did not interfere with this for how could metropolitan editors be expected to have heard of the glories of Castleman Hall, or to imagine that there existed a section of America so self-absorbed that its local favourite would not feel herself exalted in becoming Mrs. Douglas van Tuiver?
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