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Sheridan broke with a little sniff, having fallen into a reverie that brought tears. "That Miss Vertrees was a good girl," she said. "SHE was all right." Her husband evidently had no difficulty in following her train of thought, for he nodded once more, affirmatively. "Did you How did you fix it about the the Realty Company?" she faltered. "Did you "
The dinner seemed, somehow, to center about Mary Vertrees and the jocund host as a play centers about its hero and heroine; they were the rubicund king and the starry princess of this spectacle they paid court to each other, and everybody paid court to them. Down near the sugar Pump Works, where Bibbs sat, there was audible speculation and admiration.
"Oh, my dear! I'm sure your father and I " "Yes, yes," said Mary, indulgently. "I don't mean you and papa. But isn't it propinquity that makes marriages? So many people say so, there must be something in it." "Mary, I can't bear for you to talk like that." And Mrs. Vertrees lifted pleading eyes to her daughter eyes that begged to be spared. "It sounds almost reckless!"
He permitted her to think that he meant to return directly to his office, but when he came out to the open air he told the chauffeur in attendance to await him in front of Mr. Vertrees's house, whither he himself proceeded on foot. Mr. Vertrees had taken the sale of half of his worthless stock as manna in the wilderness; it came from heaven by what agency he did not particularly question.
They had reached the head of the central aisle, and as the organist finished speaking Bibbs stopped short, turning to look at Mary Vertrees in a dazed way that was not of her perceiving; for, though she stopped as he did, her gaze followed the organist, who was walking away from them toward the front of the church, shaking his white Beethovian mane roguishly.
Mary Vertrees had gone from pale to scarlet, and now, still scarlet indeed, she rose, without a word of explanation, or any other kind of word, and walked slowly to the open door and out of the room. Sibyl was a little taken aback.
And to crown it all, papa went and bought the next lot to the old Vertrees country mansion it's in the very heart of the best new residence district now, and that's where the New House is, right next door to them and I must say it makes their place look rather shabby!
"And then she she realized it, and tried to turn it into a cough, and she didn't know how, and it sounded like like a squeal!" "I suppose," said Mrs. Vertrees, much injured, "that Mary will have an uproarious time at my funeral. She makes fun of "
For Mary Vertrees had been a shining figure in the little world of late given to the view of this humble and elusive outsider, and spectators sometimes find their hearts beating faster than those of the actors in the spectacle. Thus with Bibbs now. He started and stared; he lifted his hat with incredible awkwardness, his fingers fumbling at his forehead before they found the brim. "Mr.
The Mary Vertrees that she saw was merely something to be cozened to her own frantic purpose a Mary Vertrees who was incapable of penetrating that purpose.
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