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"You will not be going farther," she suggested one evening, apropos of nothing. "Farther? Why not?" he asked rather blankly. "You told me you were an ivory hunter," she pointed out. "Ah yes. But I have hardly the goods to trade come back later," he stumbled, for once caught off his guard. "I'm really looking for new hunting grounds."
He was so wise that he knew every spoken language; yes, but more than this, he could talk with everything that lived, trees and flowers, beasts and fowls, creeping things and fishes. What a very pleasant thing that was for Solomon, to be sure! And how glad one would be nowadays to have such knowledge!
He rang the bell, and as the door opened, Jim Bellair suddenly came into the hall, out of a room which Elwyn knew to be the smoking-room a room in which he and Fanny had at one time spent long hours in contented, nay in ecstatic, dual solitude. "I have come to inquire I only heard to-night " he began awkwardly, but the other cut him short, "Yes, yes, I understand it's awfully good of you, Elwyn!
"Of course, there is the first cost to consider. The price of three or four pairs of silk stockings would give you a dozen pairs of fine cotton. Yes, I know there are cheaper silk ones to be had, but their quality is poor. We should scarcely want you to wear coarse, poorly made ones. And of course you know silk ones do not last so long. They are pretty, and pleasant to wear, and cool, I know.
"Armstrong and you have changed places in one respect, I should think," said I. "He is keeping a boarding-school somewhere in Connecticut. And instead of leading a Tulkinghorny existence in the New York University building, as he firmly intended, he has married and produced a numerous offspring, I hear." "Yes, poor fellow!" said Berkeley; "I fancy that he is dreadfully overrun and hard up.
There wasn't a mark of the boy of ten about him. But I liked his eyes. They were wide and inquiring. It wouldn't be difficult to gain his confidence. "Are you sorry Miss Redwood is going?" I asked him. "Yes. She plays games." "I know some games, too good ones." He brightened, but said nothing for a moment, though I saw him stealing a glance at me.
She smiled: "Yes; but religiously?" "Religiously! What was my whole fight to rouse Hodge out of his thousand years' sleep in his hole? Why did I edit a newspaper, and plague myself with our time and its interests? Goethe has created glorious Greek statues, but statues cannot have children. My words should find issue in deeds. Put me rather with poor Lessing. I am no true Hellenist.
He and Prudence were married, and had a family of four children, named for the various Starrs, before one hour had passed. "I'll begin my book right away," Lark was saying. She and Carol were in the dining-room madly polishing their Sunday shoes, what time they were not performing the marriage ceremony of their sister and The Hero. "Yes, do! But for goodness' sake, don't run her into a mule!
"Gosh!" said Hootchinoo Bill, and he said it reverently. "Yes, Bill, gosh!" said Kink Mitchell; and they went out softly and closed the door. David Rasmunsen was a hustler, and, like many a greater man, a man of the one idea. Wherefore, when the clarion call of the North rang on his ear, he conceived an adventure in eggs and bent all his energy to its achievement.
I comprehend their meaning, and regard them as I do the burning stars afar, shining dimly upon a darkened world. "Yes; again I say, I thank the great God for these school-days, that led me to know you, Lizzie you, to whom my heart has learned to turn as a wounded, helpless bird would turn to its mother's sheltering wing for safety and protection."
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