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He had, too, made many friends in his commission work and politics, so that he had relatively less time to give to his older ones. The absence of Miss De Voe and Lispenard somewhat reduced his social obligations it is true, but the demands on his time were multiplying fast. One of these demands was actual law work.
She's the kind of a girl that, if she decides on anything, she does it." "Who's her big fish?" said Leonore, as if she had not noticed. "That big fellow, who is so awfully exclusive Stirling. He doesn't think any people good enough for him but the Pells, and Miss De Voe, and the Ogdens. What they can see in him I can't imagine.
And Dorothy did not tell him, but in the drawing-room she told Miss De Voe: "He said that except his professor of archaeology at Heidelberg, Mr. Stirling was the nicest old dullard he'd ever met, and that he must be a very good chap to smoke with." "He said that, Dorothy?" exclaimed Miss De Voe, contemptuously. "Yes." "How ridiculous," said Miss De Voe.
Lines were coming into Peter's face which Miss De Voe had never before seen. "How strange. The letters must have gone astray. But you have written him?" "I did not know his address." "Then you really haven't heard of the little baby why, it was born two no, three years ago and of Helen's long ill-health, and of their taking a villa on the Riviera, and of how they hope to come home this spring?"
The direct way to Skaill lay along an almost straight road to the northward, by Hamla Voe and the western shores of the loch of Stenness, past the Druid standing stones. On this May afternoon, as I walked along the familiar road, there was little to attract my attention. The gray stretch of water lay still and cold, and the ploughed fields beyond it were brown and barren.
"Because I wish to learn where you dined, and thought I could form some conclusion from your menu." Miss De Voe laughed, so as to make it appear a joke, but she knew very well that she was misbehaving. "I didn't reply to your question," said Peter, "because I would have preferred not. But if you really wish to know, I'll answer it." "Yes. I should like to know." Miss De Voe still smiled.
And where Kings and Caesars never will be hailed for their power and wealth, there the persecuted chief of a downtrodden nation is welcomed as your great Republic's guest, precisely because he is persecuted, helpless, and poor. In the old, the terrible voe victis! was the rule; in yours, protection to the oppressed, malediction to ambitious oppressors, and consolation to a vanquished just cause.
A tall thin man stepped into Rolfs boat with the air of a sailor, and having shaken him warmly by the hand, assisted in two other gentlemen in black dresses, who showed by their movements that they were far from well accustomed to nautical adventure. While Rolfs boat proceeded up the voe, the other pulled towards the Lunnasting landing-place.
Ogden said, "Those who know him speak very well of him. I heard 'Van' Pell praise him highly at Newport last summer. Said all the politicians thought of him as a rising man." "He seems a nice steady fellow," said the mamma. "I don't suppose he has much practice?" "Oh, don't think of the money," said Miss De Voe. "What is that compared to getting a really fine man whom one can truly love?"
"I don't think he intends to be rude," said Dorothy. "No," responded Miss De Voe. "I don't think he knows what he is doing. He is absolutely without our standards, and it is just as well for both that he shouldn't call." Woman-like, Miss De Voe forgot that she had said Peter was a gentleman. If Peter had found himself a marked man in the trip up, he was doubly so on the return train.
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