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The glass crashed into fragments upon the wall of the marble fireplace. Payson and Wherry hurriedly pushed back their chairs. Then, suddenly conscious of a rustle in the doorway, they all turned. Wide dark eyes flashing with contempt, Diane Westfall stood motionless upon the threshold.
And although it was that same father who had, for as long as he could remember, supplied him with a substantial check upon the first day of every month and thus enabled him to achieve that exalted state of intellectual and spiritual superiority which he had in fact attained, nevertheless, putting it frankly in the vernacular, Payson rather looked down on the old man, who palpably suffered from lack of the advantages which he had furnished to his son.
I don't believe I shall ever make up my mind to wear it. I have on my little grey silk to-day, and it looks so nice. You must tell Miss Willy that it has been very much admired. Mrs. Payson asked me if it was made in Dinwiddie, and, you know, she gets all of her clothes from New York. That must have been why I thought her over-dressed when I first saw her.
Stowe, "she was distinguished by a most unfaltering Christ-worship.... Had it not been that Dr. Payson had set up and kept before her a tender, human, loving Christ, she would have been only a conscientious bigot. This image, however, gave softness and warmth to her religious life, and I have since noticed how her Christ-enthusiasm has sprung up in the hearts of all her children."
Payson to join himself and "Miss Eliza" in marriage. The last winter the missionary's family had occupied rooms at the hotel. Mrs. Payson had been growingly unhappy from dread of the Indians, and often said to her husband, "Our lot is just such a place as they would be likely to come to first." Mr.
Payson reached his destination in some five hours, in season for an early tea; and the next morning he was conducted to the Land Office by a lawyer acquaintance, and, with a witness at hand to prove what he affirmed, stated, under oath, that he had, on the land he wished to pre-empt, a cabin and other improvements to the amount that the law required; and then, having paid his hundred dollars, he started towards home with a light heart.
Payson, he once said, "When I formerly read Bunyan's description of the Land of Beulah, where the sun shines and the birds sing day and night, I used to doubt whether there was such a place; but now my own experience has convinced me of it, and it infinitely transcends all my previous conceptions."
"Aw, he's only had too much to eat," declared Blair, in answer to Lane's solicitation. "How's that, Red?" asked Lane, sitting down on the bed beside Payson. "It's nothing, Dare.... I'm just all in," replied Red, with a weary smile. "I telephoned Doc Bronson to come out," said Blair, "and look us over. That made Red as sore as a pup. Isn't he the limit?
At times it seemed as though it must give way. Presently Tom's shoulder and a part of his torso were free. In the meantime Harry Hazelton had sunk in up to the waist line. "We'll haul on you, too, now, Mr. Hazelton!" sounded the voice of Foreman Payson. "Don't you dare do it until I give the word," thundered back the voice of the assistant engineer.
"I am going to have a carriage come for you, and perhaps Mrs. Brewster will be willing to go home with you in it." "Of course I will," replied Fanny. "You hear what Dr. Payson says, that there is nothing to be alarmed about," Robert said, in a low voice, with his lips close to his aunt's ear.
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