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He merely saw a man his host who seemed cynically to be avowing his own corruption and shame, or at least his willingness to lean in that direction. "Reform," he announced grandly, "will come only from the disinterested efforts of those who bring to the task pure motives and unimpeachable practices." Whyland sighed again.
He treated Clytie just as he treated Eudoxia Pence, just as he would have treated Whyland himself but with a little added severity, called forth by her peculiar presence and her specific offence.
"We must not disparage little Clytie," said his wife gravely. "Oh, Clytie!" returned Whyland, giving his head a careless, sidelong jerk. "Still, she's good fun." He laughed. "That child is always breaking out in some new place. The next place will probably be the students' ball. You'll be there to see?" he inquired of Abner.
"I believe in the people," he declared, with his thoughts on the rustic portion of the population. "So do I within a certain range, and up to a certain point. But I do not believe in the populace," declared Whyland, with his thoughts on the urban portion. "All the difference between potatoes and potato-parings," said Bond, catching at a passing feather.
"Pence up one pole and you up the next " Whyland shrugged his shoulders and laughed. "And may it be long before they call us down!" Abner listened to all this in silence, shaking his head sadly and conscious of a deep and growing depression. Here was Whyland, a clever, likeable fellow and his host too disintegrating before his very eyes. Whyland looked askant at Abner.
"And you mixed up in such a ?" "Well, no; not exactly. We had a box as I suppose you would call it; three of them. Of course that did cost a little something. And then Mr. Whyland bought a few cigars " "Mr. Whyland ?" "Yes, he was with us; he thought there ought to be at least one gentleman along. He couldn't smoke the cigars, but one of the girls happened to have some cigarettes " "Cigarettes?"
The curtains and bedspreads at the farm had served as the earliest prompters to this step, and the furnishings of the Whyland interior now decided him to take it. Mrs. Cole's stained and spotted lambrequin became more offensive than ever, and the industrious hands of Maggie, which did much more than merely to pass things at table, were now less easy to endure.
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