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Juno's back and Hortense's front, both entirely motionless as they interviewed each other' presented a stiff appearance, with Juno half turned in her seat and Hortense's glance following her slight movement; the two then rose, as the General came down the walk with two chairs and Mrs. Gregory and Mrs. Weguelin St. Michael.
And he told me that all the men of the automobile party had received from John Mayrant cards of invitation to the club. "Your fire-eater is a civil chap," said Beverly. "And by the way, do you happen to know," here he pulled from his pocket a letter and consulted its address, "Mrs. Weguelin St. Michael?"
"How much have you seen of the creature?" demanded Mrs. Gregory, with her head pretty high. "Well, I'm seeing more, and more, and more every minute. She's rather endless." Mrs. Weguelin looked reproachful. "You surely cannot admire her, too?" Mrs. Gregory hadn't understood me. "Oh, if you really can keep her away, you're welcome!"
Weguelin, "rates few things more highly than her own judgment." Mrs. Gregory mused. "Yet she is often right when she has no right to be right." I could not bear it any longer, and I said, "I heard to-day that Miss Rieppe had broken her engagement." "And where did you hear that nonsense?" asked Mrs. Gregory. My heart leaped, and I told her where.
They prolonged their silence so much that I spoke again: "And backing out of this sort of thing can be done, I should think, quite as cleverly, and much more simply, from a distance." It was Mrs. Weguelin who answered now, or, rather, who headed me off. "Have you been able to make out whether he wants to marry her or not?" "Oh, he never comes near any of that with me!" "Certainly not.
Weguelin by saying to me, "I haven't a penny for your thoughts, but I'll exchange." "Would you thus bargain in the dark, madam?" "Oh, I'll risk that; and, to say truth, even your back, as we came out of that house, was a back of thought." "Well, I confess to some thinking. Shall I begin?" It was Mrs. Weguelin who quickly replied, smiling: "Ladies first, you know.
"Why, aivrybody in Kings Port knows that!" said the bride; and now my mirth rose even above hers. XVII: Doing the Handsome Thing It by no means lessened my pleasure to discern that Hortense must feel herself to be in a predicament; and as I sat writing my answer to the note, which was from Mrs. Weguelin St.
"Whatever temptations he has yielded to," said Mrs. Weguelin, "his filial piety has stood proof." "He refused," added Mrs. "That was hard!" I exclaimed. She totally misapplied my sympathy. "Oh, Anna Mayrant," she corrected herself, "John's mother, Mrs. Hector Mayrant, had harder things than forgetful sons to bear! I've not laid eyes on those boys since the funeral."
"The Wednesday following, you mean," Mrs. Weguelin corrected. "Postponed again? Dear me!" Mrs. Gregory spoke this time. "General Rieppe. Less well again, it seems." It would be like Juno to magnify a delay into a rupture. Then I had a hilarious thought, which I instantly put to the ladies. "If the poor General were to die completely, would the wedding be postponed completely?"
Weguelin says: 'If the amount of the reserve kept by the Bank of England be contrasted with the reserve kept by the joint stock banks, a new and hitherto little considered source of danger to the credit of the country will present itself.
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