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The fellows that get what they want out of it say it's 'great, and everybody else gets the habit. But you have a different point of view if it's the city that got what it wanted out of you! Of course Sheridan says it's 'great'." Mrs. Vertrees seemed unaware of this unusual outburst.
"I don't know whether you heard it, mother Sheridan," she said, "but this old Vertrees house, next door, had been sold on foreclosure, and all THEY got out of it was an agreement that let's 'em live there a little longer. Roscoe told me, and he says he heard Mr. Vertrees has been up and down the streets more'n two years, tryin' to get a job he could call a 'position, and couldn't land it.
"I COUNT THEM OVER, LA-LA-TUM-TEE-DUM," he roared, beating the measures with his fork. "EACH HOUR A PEARL, EACH PEARL TEE-DUM-TUM-DUM What's the matter with all you folks? Why'n't you SING? Miss Vertrees, I bet a thousand dollars YOU sing! Why'n't " "Mr. Sheridan," she said, turning cheerfully from the ardent Jim, "you don't know what you interrupted!
"I never could but you're the kindest lady in this world, Miss Vertrees." She gave him a flashing glance, and it was as kind as he said she was. "That sounds wrong," she said, impulsively. "I mean 'Miss Vertrees. I've thought of you by your first name ever since I met you. Wouldn't you rather call me 'Mary'?" Bibbs was dazzled; he drew a long, deep breath and did not speak.
She repeated the look deliberately, which was noted, with a mystification equal to his own, by his sister across the table. No one, reflected Edith, could image Mary Vertrees the sort of girl who would "really flirt" with married men she was obviously the "opposite of all that." Edith defined her as a "thoroughbred," a "nice girl"; and the look given to Roscoe was astounding.
"I was just sayin' I hoped you'd treat Sibyl all right when she comes, this afternoon. You will, won't you, papa?" He threw the coverlet off furiously. "I presume so!" he roared. She departed guiltily. But if he had accepted her proffered wager that Bibbs would go to church with Mary Vertrees that morning, Mrs. Sheridan would have lost. Nevertheless, Bibbs and Mary did certainly set out from Mr.
Mary exclaimed, when Mrs. Vertrees had expressed a hope that she had enjoyed the evening and had not caught cold. "Why don't you ask me?" This inquiry obviously made her mother uncomfortable. "I don't " she faltered. "Ask you what, Mary?" "How I got along and what he's like." "Mary!" "Oh, it isn't distressing!" said Mary.
There are women who will be kinder to a sick tramp than to a conquering hero. But the sick tramp had better remember that's what he is. Take care, take care! Humble's the word! That "mystery about pianos" which troubled Bibbs had been a mystery to Mr. Vertrees, and it was being explained to him at about the time Bibbs scribbled the reference to it in his notes.
Now, he'd never in the world let Lamhorn come near the house again if he knew his reputation. So, you see, somebody's got to tell him. It isn't a very easy position for me, is it, Miss Vertrees?" "No," said Mary, gravely. "Well, to be frank," said Sibyl, smiling, "that's why I've come to you." "To ME!" Mary frowned. Sibyl rippled and cooed again.
"NO!" she cried, and with that they both laughed again; and the pastime proceeded, increasing both in its gaiety and in its gravity. Observing its continuance, Mr. Robert Lamhorn, opposite, turned from a lively conversation with Edith and remarked covertly to Sibyl that Miss Vertrees was "starting rather picturesquely with Jim." And he added, languidly, "Do you suppose she WOULD?"
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