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"Well!" answered the other; and they went a few paces together on the lawn, shaking hands politely and looking at each other with unspoken interrogations. "I'm awfully sorry," Chichester said, "but it couldn't be helped. A chapter of accidents I'll explain." "My dear fellow," answered young Asham, "what good will that do? You needn't explain to me, and you can't explain to Ethel.
She was rather a difficult person, to be sure; the eldest daughter of that cryptic old millionaire, Watson Asham, who lived in New York and resided, for purposes of taxation, at West Smithfield; a graduate of Brainmore College; president of the Social Settlement of Higher Lighters; a frequent contributor in brief fiction to the Contrary Magazine; a beauty of the tea-after-tennis type; the best dancer in St.
On the long hotel piazza were half a dozen groups of strangers, summer visitors, evidently in a state of suppressed curiosity and amusement. They fell silent as the disconsolate vehicle came to a halt, and Arthur Asham, the Harvard brother, in irreproachable morning costume and perfect form, moved forward to meet it. "Well?" said Chichester, as he stepped out.
Aun' Sheba had lost her patience with both him and her daughter, and was expostulating vigorously. "I'se asham on you, Sissy," she said. "Wot good de 'ligion you 'fess do you, I'd like ter know? Ain't Vilet in Hebin? Ain't you got de bes husban bawn? Ain't de oder chil'n heah? Now ef you'se 'ligion any good 'tall, be quiet an tankful dat you bettah off dan hun'erds.
Asham politely turned away, and Chichester read: MY DEAR MR. CHICHESTER: Fortunate indeed is the disillusion which does not come too late. But the bridegroom who comes too late is known in time. You may be sure that I have no resentment at what you have done; I have risen to those heights where anger is unknown.
Naturally, such a many-sided young woman would be difficult to please; and a number of eligible young men had acquired personal knowledge of the fact. But the difficulty seemed to attract Chichester. He went at it in his bold, decided manner, with his chin forward; and he conquered. After the February campaign no one was surprised to hear, in March, that the engagement of Miss Ethel Asham to Mr.
At all events, we felt sure, he would get what he wanted; and when he became decidedly attentive to Ethel Asham it was taken for granted that he would woo, win, and marry her in short order.
Chichester's chin dropped a little as he read. For the first time in his life he looked undecided. Then he folded the note carefully, put it in the breast pocket of his coat, and turned to his companion. "You will be going up in to-morrow's boat, I suppose. Shall we go together?" "My dear fellow," said Arthur Asham, "really, you know I should be delighted.
It's all right, I know," and everybody predicted that Ethel Asham was about to do something very original. In the middle of June she marshalled her party for a little Canadian giro.
But I now see clearly what I have long felt dimly that your soul does not keep time with the music to which my life is set. I do not know what other engagement kept you away. I do not ask to know. I know only that ours is at an end, and you are at liberty to return to your fishing. That you will succeed in it is the expectation of Your well-wisher, E. ASHAM.
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