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"Don't I know it?" cried Mr. King, getting out of his chair hastily to pace the floor. "Goodness me! they repay me already. They're fine young things, every one of them Whitneys, Peppers and my boy as fine as they are made. And whoever says they're not, doesn't know a good piece of work when it's before his eyes.
I would have suggested that the poor child be left asleep this morning." Now he saw that she had something to tell him. "Nothing went wrong last night after I left, I hope." "Oh, not wrong," Miss Wollaston conceded, "only the Whitneys went of course, when you did and the Byrnes, and Wallace Hood, but Portia Stanton and that new husband of hers stayed. It was his doing, I suppose.
Thereupon a small fight ensued between the little Whitneys, while Jasper looked decidedly discomfited. "Let Polly sit next to me," said Van, as if a seat next to him was of all things most to be desired. "Oh, no, I want her," said little Dick. "Pshaw, Dick! you're too young," put in Percy. "You'd spill the bread and butter all over her."
Spencer's florid complexion turned a deeper tint as he met Henry's blank stare, but a covert glance at the Whitneys convinced him that they had not seen Miss Kiametia's rudeness. "Do take Mr. Spencer upstairs, Winslow," suggested Mrs. Whitney, as the chauffeur opened the door to admit more guests. "I have a meeting of my club tonight, Mr. Spencer, and therefore..."
We had Mexican sixpences and shillings in those days. "You'll have enough on your mind without that debt. And next time think of the folks at home." "Why didn't the Whitneys feel worried? Oh, thank you, Steve." "It did beat all," said Mrs. Underhill. "There Mrs. Whitney sat reading a novel " "Perhaps it was her French exercise," interrupted Steve, with a twinkle in his eye. "It was no such thing!
"Well, I wouldn't want any of my sons to marry girls brought up as those Whitneys." "Hear that, Jim. You are fairly warned." Jim turned scarlet. "Jim will have to be in better business many a year than thinking of girls," subjoined his mother decisively. The little girl didn't seem very hungry.
Mamsie," and she rushed over to her, "can we have a baking time to-morrow, just as we used to in the old days? Oh! do say yes." "Yes, do say yes," echoed Jasper, also rushing to the side of the little rocking-chair. "You will, won't you, Mrs. Pepper?" "Hoh! hoh!" cried the two Whitneys derisively, "I thought you could 'hear the Peppers talk forever. That's great, Jasper."
"We are going now," said Ellen, coming from the stupor of shame and horror into which this volcanic disgorging of the secret minds and hearts of the Whitneys had plunged her. And the expression she fixed first upon Janet, then upon Ross, then upon Matilda, killed any disposition they might have had to try to detain her. As she and Adelaide went toward her carriage, Ross followed.
Were they so sure all the signs were fulfilled? The Whitneys and the Underhills became very neighborly. Mr. Theodore Whitney often stopped for a little chat, and he was very fond of a good game of checkers with Steve or John. He was on the other side in politics and they had some warm discussions. Ophelia, the oldest girl, was engaged and deeply absorbed with her lover.
He felt that he was a man of affairs, a man of consequence, he had lawyers, and a big suit pending; and soon he would be rich. He thought of Janet, and audibly sneered. "I'll make the Whitneys sick of their treachery!" said he.
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