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The sewers were drained and searched and a bundle brought to the department which Mr. Jackson identified as his coat. He first denied that it was his coat, and said it was Wallings', but afterwards admitted that it was his coat, but that Walling must have worn it." A valise was shown to Mr. Caldwell and he identified it as the one that Jackson had been confronted with.
"All right," said the other, and added, "I thought you were dining at the Wallings'." "I'm there now," was the answer. "I'm leaving." "What is the matter?" Montague asked. "There's hell to pay," was the reply and then silence. When Oliver appeared, a few minutes later, he did not even stop to set down his hat, but exclaimed, "Allan, what in heaven's name have you been doing?"
Robbie Walling and Chauncey Venable were both such people; in the summer of next year another of the Wallings took a string across the water to teach the horse-show game to Society in London. He took twenty or thirty horses, under the charge of an expert manager and a dozen assistants; he sent sixteen different kinds of carriages, and two great coaches, and a ton of harness and other stuff.
They prided themselves upon this attitude they called it their "exclusiveness"; and the exclusiveness of the younger generations of Wallings had become a kind of insanity. Nor could the reason be that Alice was beautiful and attractive. One could have imagined it if Mrs. Robbie had been like say, Mrs. Winnie Duval. It was easy to think of Mrs.
"You'll meet Mrs. Robbie there. You've heard of the Wallings, I hope." "Yes," said Montague, "I'm not that ignorant." "All right," said the other, "we're to motor down. I'm going to take you in my racing-car, so you'll have an experience. We'll start early."
"Of course that tickled the old man to death," she continued. "The Wallings never could make out how I managed to get round him as I did; but it was simply because I was honest with him. They'd come snivelling round, pretending they were anxious about his health; while I wanted his money, and I told him so." The valiant lady turned to the decanter.
Buckingham is a very different place now from the little village in which the Bockings settled, each household having its house and yard, but dividing the common meadow and pasture land out between them each year. Wallingford was the home of the Wallings. Places whose names ended in ford were generally situated where a ford, or means of crossing a river or stream, had to be made.
One of Bertie's crowd had a big Swiss chalet; and one of the Wallings had a Japanese palace to which he came every August a house which had been built from plans drawn in Japan, and by labourers imported especially from Japan.
Winnie taking a fancy to a girl, and spending half her fortune upon her. But from a hundred little things that he had seen, Montague had come to realize that the Robbie Wallings, with all their wealth and power and grandeur, were actually quite stingy. While all the world saw them scattering fortunes in their pathway, in reality they were keeping track of every dollar.
And I made out a list of all the people I wanted to know in New York, and I said to myself: 'If you come, you're a friend, and if you don't come, you're an enemy. And they all came, let me tell you! And there was never any question about the Wallings being in Society after that." Mrs. Billy halted; and Montague remarked, with a smile, that doubtless she was sorry now that she had done it.
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