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Imagination soon stopped dead. She was not old enough to be Vance's mother, and assuredly she was not his wife. His interest was more than merely piqued it was puzzled uncommonly. What was the contrast that made the man seem beside her vile? Whence came, too, the impression that she exercised some strong authority, though never directly exercised, that held him at her mercy?
He bade her good-bye; and let himself out of the house. She returned to her darning. It was as well that she had not left the house, for about twenty minutes later the front door was opened, and the passage and studio quivered gently to Hilary Vance's weight. Pollyooly sprang up and met him at the door of the studio with Flossie's note.
Virginia presently became aware that people were gathering around her in knots, gazing at a boat coming toward them. Others had been met which, on learning the dread news, turned back. But this one kept her bow steadily up the current, although she had passed within a biscuit-toss of the leader of the line of refugees. It was then that Captain Vance's hairy head appeared above the deck.
The Branthwaites were of good old family; what is Mr. Vance's?" "Respectable enough. Vance's father was one of those clever men who have too many strings to their bow. He, too, was a painter; but he was also a man of letters, in a sort of a way had a share in a journal, in which he wrote Criticisms on the Fine Arts. A musical composer, too.
If she had escaped this effect she was willing to leave the rest with Providence. The notion that a girl of Margaret Vance's traditions would naturally form of girls like Christine and Mela Dryfoos would be that they were abashed in the presence of the new conditions of their lives, and that they must receive the advance she had made them with a certain grateful humility.
At the turn of the stairs the Vances' second girl in a white lawn cap directed him to the gentlemen's dressing-room, which was the room of Henrietta Vance's older brother.
Houston, indeed, had great difficulty in arresting the carnage; far over the prairie the flying foe were followed, and at Vance's Bridge to which the Mexicans fled, unaware of its destruction there was an awful scene. The bayou was choked with men and horses, and the water red as blood." "Ah, John; could you not spare the flying? Poor souls!"
Supper was served in the huge billiard-room in the basement and was eaten in a storm of gayety. The same parties and "sets" tried to get together at the same table; Henrietta Vance's party was particularly noisy: at her table there was an incessant clamour of screams and shouts of laughter. One ate oysters
If she had escaped this effect she was willing to leave the rest with Providence. The notion that a girl of Margaret Vance's traditions would naturally form of girls like Christine and Mela Dryfoos would be that they were abashed in the presence of the new conditions of their lives, and that they must receive the advance she had made them with a certain grateful humility.
"For a pretty child, reared up to be a strolling player," interrupted Darrell. "Don't call it silly enthusiasm. I call it chivalrous compassion. Were it other than compassion, it would not be enthusiasm it would be degradation. But do you believe, then, that Vance's confession of first love, and its cure, was but a whimsical invention?" COLONEL MORLEY. "Not so.
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