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"She laughed a little, an' says, motionin' with her head to'ds the carriage, 'My sister is Miss Verjoos. I'm Miss Claricy. I took off my cap, an' the other girl jest bowed her head a little. "'I heard you had a hoss 't I could ride, says the one on hossback.
Benson does something in that line himself. They have with them for a few days a violinist, Fairman I think his name is, from Boston, and a pianist what was it, Juliet?" "Schlitz, I think," said Miss Verjoos. "Oh, yes, that is it, and they are coming to the house to-night, and we are going to have some music in an informal sort of way. We shall be glad to have you come if you can."
The talk had drifted back to the people and gossip of Homeville, but, sooth to say, it had not on this occasion got far away from those topics. "Yes," said Mr. Harum, "Alf Verjoos is on the hull the best off of any of the lot. As I told ye, he made money on top of what the old man left him, an' he married money.
"Oh, yes!" replied John, smiling, "she and her sister were perfectly pleasant and cordial, and Miss Verjoos and I are on very friendly terms." "I was thinkin'," said David, "that you an' Claricy might be got to likin' each other, an' mebbe " "I don't think there could ever have been the smallest chance of it," declared John hastily.
The young man was never what is called "a great talker," and Mr. Harum did not always "git goin'." On this occasion they had gone along for some time, smoking in silence, each man absorbed in his thoughts. Finally David turned to his companion. "Do you know that Dutchman Claricy Verjoos is goin' to marry?" he asked. "Yes," replied John, laughing; "I have met him a number of times.
"I think I rather took it for granted that you could play for yourself. Can't you?" "After a fashion, and simple things," he said, "but on an occasion I would rather not attempt it." The girl looked at her sister in some perplexity. "I should think," suggested Miss Verjoos, speaking for the second time, "that Mr. or Herr Schlitz would play your accompaniments, particularly if Mrs.
"Thank you very much," she returned graciously. "You have given us all a great deal of pleasure." "Yes," said Miss Verjoos, giving her hand with a mischievous gleam in her half-shut eyes, "I was enchanted with Solomon Levi." David and John had been driving for some time in silence. The elder man was apparently musing upon something which had been suggested to his mind.
The most notable event had been the reopening of the Verjoos house, which had been closed for two summers, and the return of the family, followed by the appearance of a young man whom Miss Clara had met abroad, and who represented himself as the acknowledged fiancé of that young woman.
Harum in some doubt as to the seriousness of the last remark. "Go to the 'Piscopal church, an' have what they call dinner at six o'clock," said David. "Now, there's the The'dore Verjooses," he continued; "the 'rig'nal Verjoos come an' settled here some time in the thirties, I reckon. "He was the father of Mr. Verjoos the other banker here, I suppose?" said John.
'Wa'al, I says, 'Mr. Verjoos, I guess the fact o' the matter is 't I'm about as much in the mud as you be in the mire your daughter's got my hoss, I says. 'Now you ain't dealin' with a hoss jockey, I says, 'though I don't deny that I buy an' sell hosses, an' once in a while make money at it.
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