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He sat down heavily in the chair opposite and tried quietly to regain his self-control. The liabilities of the Cresswells already amounted to half the value of their property, at a fair market valuation. The cotton for which they had made debts was still falling in value. Every fourth of a cent fall meant he figured it again tremblingly meant one hundred thousand more of liabilities.
I would not mind a thousand or so to train a good cook for the Cresswells, or a clean and faithful maid for myself for Helene has faults or indeed deft and tractable laboring-folk for any one; but I'm quite through trying to turn natural servants into masters of me and mine. I hope I'm not too blunt; I hope I make myself clear. You know, statistics show " "Drat statistics!"
She'll be reasonable, won't she, and placate the Cresswells?... No, I mean run the school to suit their ideas.... No, no, but in general along the lines which they could approve.... Yes, I thought so ... of course ... good-bye." "Inclined to be a little nasty?" asked Taylor. "A little sharp but tractable. Now, Mr. Cresswell, the thing is in your hands.
"Oh, 'educating'! The word conceals so much. Now, I take it the Cresswells would object to instructing them in French and in dinner etiquette and tea-gowns, and so, in fact, would I; but teach them how to handle a hoe and to sew and cook. I have reason to know that people like the Cresswells would be delighted." "And with the teachers of it?"
His business methods were such as a Cresswell could never stoop to; but he was a man of his word, and Colonel Cresswell's correspondence with Mr. Easterly opened his eyes to the beneficent ideals of Northern capital. At the same time he could not consider the Easterlys and the Taylors and such folk as the social equals of the Cresswells, and his prejudice on this score must still be reckoned with.
The Colonel and his son drove to town and consulted the Judge; together they summoned the sheriff and the local member of the State legislature. "I think it's about time that we Cresswells asked for a little of the political pie," the Colonel smilingly opened. "Well, what do you want?" asked the Judge. "Harry wants to go to Congress." The Judge hesitated.
Caldwell seemed to be right, for cotton rose to ten cents a pound ten and a half eleven and then the South began to see visions and to dream dreams. "Yes, my dear," said Mr. Maxwell, whose lands lay next to the Cresswells' on the northwest, "yes, if cotton goes to twelve or thirteen cents as seems probable, I think we can begin the New House" for Mrs.
Panting and cursing, he flashed his huge revolver "bang! bang! bang!" it cracked into the night. The sweat poured from his forehead; the terror of the swamp was upon him. With a struggling and tearing in his throat, he tripped and fell fainting under the silent oaks. Twenty The Silver Fleece, darkly cloaked and girded, lay in the cotton warehouse of the Cresswells, near the store.
Miss Smith suggested a drive to town Bles could take her in the top-buggy after school and she could consult some of the merchants and business men. She could then write her letter and mail it there; it would be but a day or so late getting to New York. "Of course," said Miss Smith drily, slowly folding her napkin, "of course, the only people here are the Cresswells."
From the Cresswells and the Maxwells and others came loads of clothes for washing and mending. The Tolliver girls had simple dresses made, embroidery was ordered from town, and soon there would be the gardens and cotton fields. Mrs. Cresswell would saunter down of mornings.
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