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"I am afraid that she might have a natural diffidence about accepting anything more from me I asked Miss Vail to marry me to-night, and she refused." The cigar kind of slid down unnoticed from the corner of Madison's mouth and he leaned forward, hanging with a hand behind him to the bedpost and stared at Thornton. "You what!" he gasped.
The more the true history of his connection with his associates is studied, the more baseless do these accusations appear, and in this connection the following extracts from letters to Alfred Vail and to his brother George are most illuminating. The first letter is dated July 15, 1854:
A tiny exchange, with ten wires, was promptly started in London; and on April 2d, 1879, Theodore Vail, the young manager of the Bell Company, sent an order to the factory in Boston, "Please make one hundred hand telephones for export trade as early as possible." The foreign trade had begun. Then there came a thunderbolt out of a blue sky, a wholly unforeseen disaster.
Not an instant did he sleep, that we could discover; and always, day or night, Vail was with him, and they were quarreling. The four women took care of him as best they could. For a time they gave him the bromides I prepared, taking my medical knowledge without question. In the horror of the situation, curiosity had no place, and class distinctions were forgotten.
The young girl was fair and sweet, her golden hair shining through the marriage vail, her blue eyes wet with unshed tears, her face flushed with daintiest rose-leaf bloom.
At his prayer I followed the train of his queen, and hushed the proud hearts of our barons to obeisance. But since then, this Dame Woodville, whom I queened, if her husband mated, must dispute this roiaulme with mine and me, a Nevile, nowadays, must vail his plume to a Woodville!
In other words, it was a return to first principles as thought out by Morse, and not, as some would have us believe, something entirely new suggested and invented independently by Vail.
Her eyelids, strangely discolored, were like the petals of a melancholy flower, and her eyes were heavy and gentle. A vague, absurdly alarming sense of presage grew upon him as his eyes went from this face to Imogen's so still, so cold, so unanswering, lightened, as if from a vail of heavy cloud, by that stealthy, baleful, illuminating glance.
Helena, a little uncertainly, looked at Madison. "Is he all blind?" she whispered. "Quite blind," said Madison sadly. Helena's face clouded a little, and into the brown eyes crept a strange, sudden, sympathetic look. "Doc," she said, "it it isn't fair. It's a shame he can't fight back." "One error to you, Miss Vail," said Madison pleasantly.
Morse receives decoration from Sultan of Turkey. Letter to organizers of Printers' Festival. Letter concerning aviation. Optimistic letter from Mr. Kendall. Humorous letter from George Wood. Thomas R. Walker. Letter to Fenimore Cooper. Dr. Jackson again. Unfairness of the press. Letter from Charles C. Ingham on art matters. Letter from George Vail. F.O.J. Smith continues to embarrass.
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