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He means what he says, and the time's come to serve my sentence. Hard labor for life, I think." Mary shook her head. "I don't think so. He's too kind." "You think my father's KIND?" And Bibbs stared at her. "Yes. I'm sure of it. I've felt that he has a great, brave heart. It's only that he has to be kind in his own way because he can't understand any other way." "Ah yes," said Bibbs.
She bestowed a contented glance upon the old house with the cupola, as she and Roscoe crossed the street. When they had gone, Mrs. Sheridan indulged in reverie, but after a while she said, uneasily, "Papa, you think it would be any use to tell Bibbs about that letter?" "I don't know," he answered, walking moodily to the window. "I been thinkin' about it." He came to a decision. "I reckon I will."
And I thought I'd seen your daughter start for a drive with Bibbs Sheridan in a car about three o'clock and They aren't back yet, are they?" "No. Good heavens!" "And the only thing I could think of was that something must have happened to them, and I just dashed over and it was only your PIANO!" She broke into laughter again. "I suppose you're just sending it somewhere to be repaired, aren't you?"
"Will you like that?" she asked Bibbs. "I don't know. I never heard any except 'Largo. I don't know anything about music. I don't even know how to pretend I do. If I knew enough to pretend, I would." "No," said Mary, looking at him and smiling faintly, "you wouldn't."
Roscoe stood blinking, his lip quivering; Edith wept audibly; Mrs. Sheridan leaned in half collapse against her husband; but Bibbs knew that his father was the one who cared. It was over. Men in overalls stepped forward with their shovels, and Bibbs nodded quickly to Roscoe, making a slight gesture toward the line of waiting carriages.
"You could tell 'em you had writer's cramp," Bibbs suggested. "I couldn't tell 'em anything! I just choke with mortification every time anybody speaks of the thing." Bibbs looked grieved. "The poem isn't THAT bad, Edith. You see, you were only seventeen when you wrote it." "Oh, hush up!" she snapped. "I wish it had burnt my fingers the first time I touched it.
This singular prophecy, founded somewhat recklessly upon gratitude for the meaning of "lamiDAL," differed radically from another prediction concerning Bibbs, set forth for the benefit of a fair auditor some twenty minutes later. Jim Sheridan, skirting the edges of the town with Mary Vertrees beside him, in his own swift machine, encountered the invalid upon the highroad.
But to Bibbs, who had now to go to the very heart of it, for a commanded interview with his father, the distant cloud was like an implacable genius issuing thunderously in smoke from his enchanted bottle, and irresistibly drawing Bibbs nearer and nearer.
"You know what I mean: the best people, the old families the people that have the real social position in this town and that know they've got it." Bibbs indulged in his silent chuckle again; he seemed greatly amused. "I thought that the people who actually had the real what-you-may-call-it didn't know it," he said.
"I'm quite safe, thank you," she said, with a little emphasis. "Good night." "Good night," said Bibbs, and went obediently. When he reached the street he looked back, but she had vanished within the house. Moving slowly away, he caromed against two people who were turning out from the pavement to cross the street. They were Roscoe and his wife. "Where are your eyes, Bibbs?" demanded Roscoe.
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