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Alice Haskett's remarriage with Gus Varick was a passport to the set whose recognition she coveted, and for a few years the Varicks were the most popular couple in town. Unfortunately the alliance was brief and stormy, and this time the husband had his champions. Still, even Varick's stanchest supporters admitted that he was not meant for matrimony, and Mrs.
Then, of an impulse, her fingers closed on mine firmly, and she looked me straight in the eye. "You are a good comrade; welcome to Varicks', cousin Ormond!" Our hands fell apart, and, glancing up, I perceived a group of youthful barbarians on the stairs, intently watching us. As my eyes fell on them they scattered, then closed in together defiantly.
Murphy follows me.... And I think we should be on our way," he added, impatiently. We walked back to the house, where old man Stoner and his two big boys stood with our riflemen, drinking flip. "Elerson," I said, "ride my mare and lead the other horses back to Varicks'. Murphy, you will pilot us to Beacraft's. Jack, go forward with Murphy."
And, by Heaven! they lacked nothing for solid silver, my cousins the Varicks, nor yet for fine glass, which I observed without appearance of vulgar curiosity while Cato carved a cold joint of butcher's roast and cracked the bottles of wine a claret that perfumed the room like a garden in September. "Cousin Dorothy, I have the honor to raise my glass to you," I said.
They are patroons, too, yet kin to the Johnsons, of Johnson Hall and Guy Park, and kin to the Ormond-Butlers. But they are different from either Johnson or Butler vastly different from the Schuylers or the Livingstons " He shrugged his broad shoulders and dropped his hand: "The Varicks are all mad, sir. Good-bye."
"A lad who listens to his elders through a key-hole is not fit for serious " A heavy assault on the door drowned Dorothy's voice. She waited calmly until the uproar had subsided. "Let us sit by the window," she said, "and I will tell you how we Varicks stand betwixt the deep sea and the devil." "I wish to come in!" shouted Ruyven, in a threatening voice.
And they are great folk, sir, even yet these Livingstons, these Van Rensselaers, these Phillipses, lords of their manors still; Dutch of descent, polished, courtly, proud, bearing the title of patroon as a noble bears his coronet." He raised his hand, smiling. "It is not so with the Varicks.
"No, sir; you are neither the one nor the other like a tadpole with legs, neither frog nor pollywog. But you will be." "Which?" I asked, laughing. "My wisdom cannot draw that veil for you, sir," he said. "You may take your chameleon color from your friends the Varicks and remain gray, or from the Butlers and turn red, or from the Schuylers and turn blue and buff."
Women don't know what a jolly time men have in town. Follows the chronical of this August day: "I had your letter; that is breeze enough for me; it was all full of blue sky and big white clouds and the scent of Adirondack pines. Isn't it jolly for you and Kathleen to be at the Varicks' camp! And what a jolly crowd you've run into.
For there were pictures in frames showing generals and statesmen of the Ormond-Butlers, one even of the great duke who fled to France; and there were pictures of the Varicks before they mingled with us Irish apple-cheeked Dutchmen, cadaverous youths bearing match-locks, and one, an admiral, with star and sash across his varnish-cracked corselet of blue steel, looking at me with pale, smoky eyes.
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