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Pinckney's manner was the manner of a man of the world of thirty, easy-going, assured, and decided. He shook hands with Phyl as Hennessey introduced them, and then stood with his back to the fireplace talking, as she took her seat in the armchair on the right, whilst the lawyer remained standing, hands in pockets and foot on the left corner of the fender. The newcomer did most of the talking.
She ran, and as she drew close to the striving mass of people she saw men bearing stretchers. They were pushing their way through the crowd, making to enter a house on the right. Then came a voice. The voice of one man shouting to another. "Young Pinckney's killed." The words pierced her like a sword, she felt herself falling.
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The place held her, something returned to it that had been driven away perhaps by Miss Pinckney's cheerful and practical presence, the faint odour of lavender still clung to the air, and the silence was unbroken except for a faint stirring of the window curtains now and then to the breeze from outside.
I will never get used to that name; no matter, I'm getting an old woman, and mustn't grumble mustn't grumble umph!" She took Pinckney's walking-stick from him and, with the end of it, picked up a duster that the mysterious Dinah, evidently, had left lying on the floor. She put the duster out on the veranda, rang a bell and ordered the coloured boy who answered it to send in breakfast.
Miss Pinckney's eyes softened. She was fiddling with a spoon and when she spoke she seemed speaking to it, turning it about as if to examine its pattern all the time. "I don't know what mothers with boys feel like, but I do want to see that boy safe and married before I go.
Indeed, Pinckney's plan was the future Constitution of the United States in embryo; and when it is read and contrasted with the document which has so justly won the acclaim of men throughout the world, it is amazing that so young a man should have anticipated and reduced to a concrete and effective form many of the most novel features of the Federal Government.
She had been thinking about him more than about any one else that evening and that easily accounted for the matter. Fancy had mimicked him yet why did Fancy use her name and clothe it in Pinckney's voice? and it was distinctly a call, the call of a person who wishes to draw another person's attention.
If Phyl had thought over the matter, she might have seen that, perhaps, this silence of Pinckney's was the silence of delicacy, not of indifference, but she was not in the humour to hold things up to the light of reason. She had decided to dislike this man and when the Mascarenes came to a decision of this sort they were hard to be shaken from it.
As the only copy of Pinckney's plan was furnished years afterwards to Madison for his journal, it is possible that some of its wisdom was of the post factum variety. Having received the two plans, the convention then went, on May 30, into a committee of the whole to consider the fifteen propositions in the Virginia plan seriatim.
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