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Farraday only came down at week-ends, Jamie was busy with his lessons, and Constance still lingered in Vermont. As for Stefan, he came home late and left early; often he did not come at all. She began to question seriously if she had been right to remain in the cottage. Her heart told her no, but her pride said yes, and her pride was strong; also, it was backed by reason.
Men liked him, which was much to his credit. Those near his own age often made him a confidant in such matters as their ambitions and loves. His elders saw to it that he was asked not only to the things their wives and sisters gave but to week-ends in the family bosom as well. And women liked him, which was not so much to his credit, since we judge our own sex far more wisely than the other.
He usually comes in at week-ends." "Look him up immediately, and tell him to keep an eye on Donald, and not to let him out of his sight until the boy boards the logging-train to-morrow night to go back to the woods.
Ford reported that he had succeeded in getting Ted Franklin and his wife to go to the lumber camp, to live in one of the cabins and assume charge as care-takers. "They'll have a cabin all ready for you girls," the lawyer had said to his daughter. "It will be near theirs, and if Will and the boys want to go up for week-ends, there is a cabin they can use." "But, Daddy, tell Will not to bother us.
He lived in London, and shot out into the provinces at week-ends, preaching on Sundays and giving a lecture, tinctured with bookishness, 'in the chapel' on Monday evenings. In every town he visited there was competition for the privilege of entertaining him. He had zeal, indefatigable energy, and a breezy wit. He was a widower of fifty, and his wife had been dead for twenty years.
"But trying to the nerves when what we inaccurately call the trade winds begin. Why not let her stay with me? Of course she would be lonely in her own house, and is too young to stay there alone anyhow, but I'd like to put her up, and you certainly could run down week-ends possibly oftener. American men are always obsessed with the idea that they are twice as busy as they really are."
The dreadful tradition persists that he had been known at table to put his own knife into the butter. How safe to assume that many things were said commiserating poor Mrs. Lincoln who had a bear for a husband. And some people noticed that Lincoln did not come home at week-ends during term-time as often as he might. Perhaps it meant something; perhaps it did not.
In the autumn of 1918, Jane, when she went home for week-ends, frequently found one Oliver Hobart there. Oliver Hobart was the new editor of Lord Pinkerton's chief daily paper, and had been exempted from military service as newspaper staff. 'A really beautiful face, said Lady Pinkerton, and so he had.
"Well," she declared, "I like impulsive people, so I dare say I'll ask you for the card before we land. Do you live in London?" "I have a house there," he answered. "I am there for about two months in the year, and odd week-ends during the hunting season." "Tell me about London, please," she said. "Historically," he began, a little doubtfully. "I am afraid " She interrupted him, shaking her head.
Fletcher Fosdick, he was busy at his office in New York and came to South Harniss only for infrequent week-ends. The walks and talks and poetizings were innocent enough. Neither of the partners in poesy had the least idea of anything more than being just that.
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