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Updated: June 8, 2025
"When you've watered your plant and kept it in the sunshine you don't have to make it bloom. It will do that of itself." "But all these young men? and this young Wappinger ?" "I should let them alone." "Not young Wappinger!" "What harm is he doing? I admit that the present situation has its foolish aspects from your point of view and mine; but I can think of things a great deal worse.
"I only thought it might be for you." "Then I'll admit that it is." "But I hoped, too", she continued, moving a little nearer to him, "that my coming might be in the way of a pleasant surprise." "Oh yes; certainly; very pleasant very pleasant indeed." "I'm a good deal relieved to hear you say that, Mr. Wappinger," she said, "because there was a possibility that you mightn't like it."
Wappinger departed, and the incident closed. It must be admitted that Diane Eveleth found her entry into the Land of Promise rather disappointing. To outward things she paid comparatively little heed. The general aspect of New York was what she had seen in pictures and expected.
You couldn't make a mistake about that, any more than one pigeon could make a mistake about another, or take it for a crow." "And is young Wappinger one of the right people?" It was with an effort that Derek made up his mind to broach this subject, but Dorothea's self-possession was not disturbed. "Certainly," she replied, briefly, with perhaps a slight accentuation of her maiden dignity.
"You'll find that you've done what you don't like with her, when you've allowed her to get into a ridiculous, unmaidenly flirtation with the young man Wappinger." "I shouldn't let that distress me if I were you. As far as Dorothea is concerned, your young man Wappinger doesn't exist." "That's as it may be," Miss Lucilla sniffed, now on the brink of tears.
Quietly, and in a manner as matter-of-fact as she could make it, she told her tale from the beginning. She narrated her summons from Mrs. Wappinger, her visit to his own house, her arrangements there, her journey to Lakefield, and her interview with Carli Wappinger.
I desire, furthermore, that though you may use my name to the Mesdames Eveleth, as a passport to their presence, you will in no wise speak of me to my relatives in question, or give them to understand that I have inspired the invitation you will accord them...." Mrs. Wappinger threw down the letter with the emphasis of gesture which was one of her characteristics.
Eveleth was conversing with Lucilla on Knickerbocker genealogy; but neither of the young people was to be seen. His look of anxiety did not escape Diane, who responded to it with her usual straightforward promptness. "I fancy she's still in the ball-room with young Mr. Wappinger," she explained. "We were all there a few minutes ago, looking at the decorations for the dance Mrs.
"Is that your daughter?" she asked, glad to escape from her subject, now that it was stated plainly "the very pretty girl in red?" The question gave Pruyn the excuse he wanted or looking about him. "I believe she's in red but I don't see her." He searched the dimly lighted room, where Mrs. Wappinger sat, silent and satisfied, behind her tea-table, while Mrs.
Never! "Or you could have a lady to chaperon her properly." "Rubbish!" "Well, there you are, Derek. You refuse the only means that could help you in your situation; and so you leave Dorothea a prey to a woman like Mrs. Wappinger. You'll excuse me for mentioning it; but " "I'd excuse you for mentioning anything; but even Mrs. Wappinger ought to have justice.
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