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A group of men on the sidewalk were talking, and she paused to hear one say: "To see that young chap Stirling handling Maguire was an eye-opener." Another man laughed, rather a deep, quiet laugh. "Maguire understands everything but honesty," he said. "You can always beat him with that." Miss De Voe would have like to stay and listen, but there were too many men. So the ladies entered the carriage.
The last remark made by Miss De Voe to her fire resulted, after a few days, in Peter's receiving a formal dinner invitation, which he accepted with a promptness not to be surpassed by the best-bred diner-out. He regretted now his vamping of the old suit. Peter understood that he was in for quite another affair than the Avery, the Gallagher, or even the Purple dinner.
When a man can ally himself with the best, why should he choose the worst?" "I think," said Peter quietly, "that a Pharisee said the same thing, in different words, many hundred years ago." Miss De Voe caught her breath and flushed. She also became suddenly conscious of the two girls who had come to the spring with her.
"Do explain these mysterious remarks," said Dorothy. "Mr. Stirling and I officiated at a wedding, and I was in such mortal terror lest some usher should step on my gown, that it became a joke." "Whose wedding was that?" asked Miss De Voe. "Miss Pierce's and Watts D'Alloi's," said the bridesmaid. "Do you know Watts D'Alloi?" exclaimed Miss De Voe to Peter. "Yes." "Indeed! When?" "At college."
"Are you a Harvard man?" "Yes." "You were Mr. D'Alloi's chum, weren't you?" said Miss Leroy. "Yes." "Watts D'Alloi?" again exclaimed Miss De Voe. "Yes." "But he's a mere boy." "He's two years my senior." "You don't mean it?" "Yes." "I thought you were over thirty." "Most people do." Miss De Voe said to herself, "I don't know as much about him as I thought I did.
Now, how do you pronounce it in New York? Miss De Voe put on that quiet, crushing manner she has when a man displeases her, and said, 'We never pronounce it in New York." "Good for our Dutch-Huguenot stock! I tell you, Peter, blood does tell." "It wasn't a speech I should care to make, because it did no good, and could only mortify.
In a moment he was introduced to a "Miss Lenox," who began talking in an easy way which gave Peter just as much or as little to say as he chose. Peter wondered if many girls were as easy to talk to as as Miss Lenox. He took Miss De Voe in, and found Dorothy Ogden sitting on his other side.
After Prof. De Voe left, I remained at the hotel but a few days, when a gentleman arrived there from the East, selling County rights for a patent gate. I remembered having had a conversation with a gentleman the day before, who said he wanted to invest a hundred dollars in a good paying business. I asked the patent-right man what commission he would allow if I would find a customer.
She had left the table a minute before, and had gone to the window to throw out some scraps to the pet birds waiting, well assured that they would not be forgotten. Very few boats came up Boden voe, especially at such an unusual hour, therefore more than one of the breakfast party followed Signy to the window to see who was coming. "It's father for one," said Tom.
Yaspard was only too glad to get off so easily, and paused for nothing, but, racing off to his boat with Signy, was soon sailing up the voe not across, as before, for his destination was not Noostigard. Boden voe is very beautiful It curves between steep shores, and at one place narrows so much that you could almost touch either shore with a sillack-rod from a boat passing through.
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