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Voss drew her hands against her bosom. "All nervous," said her husband. "Come! You must go to bed." "It will be of no use, Wilmer," returned the lady. "I will be worse in bed than sitting up. You don't know what a strange feeling has come over me. Oh, Archie, if you were only at home! Hark! What was that?" The pale face grew paler as Mrs. Voss bent forward in a listening attitude.
"Will you not walk in, sir!" he said cordially. "I was expecting my little grandson who went out a short while ago." He peered up the street. "Did you wish to see my daughter? You will find us in a little confusion Christinas time is always a busy season with us on account of our young man: my grandson." He lingered with pride over the words. The General stepped into the light. "Wilmer Drayton!
Of course, he silently argued, the girl could not be expected to show her love for Wilmer publicly; it was enough that he had been assured of its strength; the fact of her agreement to marry him was final. He went about his daily activities with a heavy absent-mindedness, with a dragging spirit.
Her chum and roommate, Edith Wilmer, was sitting on the bed watching her in that calm disinterested fashion peculiarly maddening to a bewildered packer. "It does seem too provoking," said Katherine, as she tugged at an obstinate shawl strap, "that Ned should be transferred here now, just when I'm going away. The powers that be might have waited until vacation was over.
To this the author gladly consented and received with a joy that was pathetic the sum of fifteen dollars from "The Souvenir," which had purchased one of the tales at a dollar a printed page. He and Wilmer put their heads together in dreams of literary work by which a man could live.
"Tell me! oh, tell me! Theodore, all, all! Do not distress me by further silence, or mystery!" A pause of some minutes succeeded, during which Wilmer was making strong efforts to overcome his feelings. "Constance," he at length said, mournfully, "I have tried long, and much beyond my strength, to earn the small sum that it took to support our little ones; but nature has at last given way.
"I've no people living," said Paul, with a smile and when Paul smiled it was as if Eros's feathers had brushed the cheek of a Praxitelean Hermes; and then with an outburst half sincere, half braggart "I've been on my own ever since I was thirteen." Wilmer regarded him wearily. "The missus and I have always thought you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth."
But Lucy was apparently unaware of this; she sat calm and remote in her crisp white skirts, while Wilmer fidgeted at the door. Soon, however, she said: "For goodness' sake, Wilmer, whatever's the matter with you? Can't you find a chair that suits you? You make a person nervous." At the same time she rose ungraciously and followed him into the house.
This sum, about one hundred dollars, he had when he was thrown out of employment scarcely enough to last for three months, under their present expenses. It was with painful reluctance that Wilmer trespassed upon this precious store, but he found necessity a hard task-master.
Hardly able to contain the indignation that swelled within him, at the presumption of an unknown clerk, thus to ask the hand of his daughter, he paused but a moment, and then seizing Wilmer by the shoulder, and looking him steadily in the face, while he almost foamed with anger, replied thus to his last admission:
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