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You know we must be wise as serpents and gentle as doves I deciding, and" he laid his hand on her arm "though I doubt not all will be well, I must think over the matter a while. Welcome, brother," he added, offering his hand to Eliph' Hewlitt. The little book agent shook it warmly. "'I was a stranger and ye took me in," he said glibly. "Fine weather for a picnic." His eyes glowed.
But I ain't going to sell you one. I've got a good reason." Miss Sally was not fully pacified by this, for now she was sure she had guessed the reason Eliph' Hewlitt did not want to sell her a copy.
Eliph' Hewlitt was resolved that into this interview no words regarding Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art should enter. With two such favored rivals in the field, and with such difficulty in getting into the house as he had experienced, he meant to get well acquainted in a hurry.
But Eliph' Hewlitt did not leave them there; he tucked them under his arm, and hurried away with brisk little steps. "There ought to be a license agin book agents," said Pap Briggs spitefully, when Eliph' Hewlitt had hurried away. "It wouldn't harm that feller," said Wilkins. "He's a red hot one at book-agenting, he is, an' he'd find out some way to git round it.
She would bring the cup of soup, or the glass of wine, and sit beside him as he took it; or lure him gently to talk to her of David of his childhood or boyhood. "No one does him so much good as Miss Templeton," Dr. Hewlitt observed one day to Dinah. "I confess I was a bit anxious about him for two days he has a weak heart, and I did not quite like his look; but your sister has brought him round."
Hewlitt each bestowed a swift kiss upon their daughter, then made a hasty exit to their waiting car, and were whirled away in the direction of Glenbury Station and the 4.30 train, and their ultimate destination of Paris. Ten minutes later Lennie Browne, one of the juniors, disturbed the quintette on the wheelbarrow with a message. "Miss Todd's sent me to find you," she announced.
And now she had been left face to face with a book agent, actually introduced to him, and her father still under monthly miseries on account of Sir Walter Scott's Complete Works. "I don't want any books to-day," said Miss Sally nervously, when she saw that she could not run away. "And I'm not going to sell you any," said Eliph' Hewlitt cheerfully.
"Yes," said Eliph' Hewlitt, "it is all given in 'India, Its Religions and Its History, in Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art." "Jist so!" said Mrs. Weaver.
One day some Americans came and peeped through the windows when she was having her lunch, and wouldn't go away." "I'm sorry they were Americans," put in Mrs. Hewlitt. "My countrymen don't often so forget their manners, I'm glad to say." "Well, at any rate," smiled the guide, "both English and Americans made themselves nuisances, and she wouldn't let any more tourists come near.
This truly American independence does him the greatest credit. "Mr. Mills, or Eliph' Hewlitt, as he prefers to be known, is an old schoolmate of James Wilkins, the prominent livery and hotel man of our little burg. Again we welcome him to our midst." This was headed, "Eliph' Hewlitt Now a Citizen of Kilo!" and it was all the introduction the little book agent needed except to Miss Sally.
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