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Updated: May 22, 2025
Bobby Lamhorn told Sibyl he was going to bring his mother to call on her and on mamma, but it was weeks ago, and I notice he hasn't done it; and if Mrs. Vertrees decides not to know us, I'm darn sure Mrs Lamhorn'll never come. That's ONE thing Sibyl didn't manage! She SAID Bobby offered to bring his mother " "You say he is a friend of Roscoe's?" Bibbs asked.
He looks dreadfully ill, but he has pleasant eyes, and it struck me that if if one were in the Sheridan family" she laughed a little ruefully "he might be interesting to talk to sometimes, when there was too much stocks and bonds. I didn't see him after dinner." "There must be something wrong with him," said Mrs. Vertrees. "They'd have introduced him if there wasn't." "I don't know.
"I I believe not immediately. Mr. Sheridan came last evening to hear her play because she had arranged with the that is, it was to be removed this afternoon. He seems almost well again." "Yes." Sibyl nodded. "His father's going to try to start him to work." "He seems very delicate," said Mrs. Vertrees.
Vertrees. "One of the sons, I suppose he was. I believe he's insane, or something. At least I hear they keep him in a sanitarium somewhere, and never talk about him. He was staring at himself in a mirror and talking to himself. Then he looked out and caught me." "What did he " "Nothing, of course." "How did he look?"
Vertrees "managed somehow" on the dividends, though "managing" became more and more difficult as the years went by and money bought less and less. But there came a day when three servitors of Bigness in Philadelphia took greedy counsel with four fellow-worshipers from New York, and not long after that there were no more dividends for Mr. Vertrees. In fact, there was nothing for Mr.
Mary had gone up-stairs upon Bibbs's departure at ten o'clock, and Mr. and Mrs. Vertrees sat until after midnight in the library, talking.
Roscoe was a literal young man, all stocks and bonds, and he had been brought up to believe that when a man married he "married and settled down." It was "all right," he felt, for a man as old as his father to pay florid compliments to as pretty a girl as this Miss Vertrees, but for himself "a young married man" it wouldn't do; and it wouldn't even be quite moral.
The door closed, and she rushed up-stairs, bringing with her a breath of cold and bracing air into her mother's room. "Yes," she said, before Mrs. Vertrees could speak, "he brought me home!" She let her cloak fall upon the bed, and, drawing an old red-velvet rocking-chair forward, sat beside her mother after giving her a light pat upon the shoulder and a hearty kiss upon the cheek. "Mamma!"
Mary had taken a key, insisting that he should not come for her and seeming confident that she would not lack for escort; nor did the sequel prove her confidence unwarranted. But Mrs. Vertrees had a long vigil of it.
"Good place for it," Bibbs murmured, still red. Sheridan gave him a grin. "Perhaps pretty soon you'll be gettin' up early enough to find things before I do!" It was a threat, and Bibbs repeated the substance of it, later in the evening, to Mary Vertrees they had come to know each other that well.
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