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Edith and Sibyl were radiant: at first they had watched Miss Vertrees with an almost haggard anxiety, wondering what disasterous effect Sheridan's pastoral gaieties and other things would have upon her, but she seemed delighted with everything, and with him most of all.
It was this servitress who opened the door for Sheridan and presently assured him that Miss Vertrees would "be down." He was not the man to conceal admiration when he felt it, and he flushed and beamed as Mary made her appearance, almost upon the heels of the cook.
Vertrees, finishing the implication, not in words, but with a wave of his hand. "Go on, Mary. None of the rest of them came in? You didn't meet Mr. Sheridan or " He paused and adjusted a lump of coal in the fire delicately with the poker. "Or one of the sons?" Mary's glance crossed his, at that, with a flash of utter comprehension. He turned instantly away, but she had begun to laugh again.
Jim, approving warmly of his neighbor's profile, perceived her access of color, which increased his approbation. "What's that old Roscoe saying to you, Miss Vertrees?" he asked. "These young married men are mighty forward nowadays, but you mustn't let 'em make you blush." "Am I blushing?" she said. "Are you sure?"
"No," she said, "no one except the women, but mamma inquired about the sons thoroughly!" "Mary!" Mrs. Vertrees protested. "Oh, most adroitly, too!" laughed the girl. "Only she couldn't help unconsciously turning to look at me when she did it!" "Mary Vertrees!" "Never mind, mamma! Mrs.
James Sheridan, Junior, stupid? I'm sure he's not at all stupid about business. Otherwise Oh, what right have I to be calling people 'stupid' because they're not exactly my kind? On the big dinner-table they had enormous icing models of the Sheridan Building " "Oh, no!" Mrs. Vertrees cried. "Surely not!" "Yes, and two other things of that kind I don't know what.
At that Sheridan pounded the table till it jumped. "Look here, young lady!" he roared. "Some o' these days I'm either goin' to slap you or I'm goin' to kiss you!" Edith looked aghast; she was afraid this was indeed "too awful," but Mary Vertrees burst into ringing laughter. "Both!" she cried. "Both! The one to make me forget the other!"
Vertrees has always lived on his income, and papa didn't know him, of course. They're the stiffist, most elegant people in the whole town.
Gurney's office; it seemed to him that he had set out upon a happy journey since then, and that he had reached another planet, where Mary Vertrees and he sat alone together listening to a vast choiring of invisible soldiers and holy angels. There were armies of voices about them singing praise and thanksgiving; and yet they were alone.
I sized her up for one of those old churchy people that tell all kinds of lies except when it comes to so many words, and then they can't. She might just as well told me outright! Yes, they'd sold it; and I hope they'll pay some of their debts. They owe everybody, and last week a coal-dealer made an awful fuss at the door with Mr. Vertrees.
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