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As they drove over to the station, Colonel Hitchcock said: "I have told him the whole thing: how hard pressed I am; how his mother is worrying and ill well, I don't feel it will make much difference. He could see all that." "You must remember that he has always had every inducement to enjoy himself," the young doctor ventured. "He doesn't understand your life.
"I have had some notion of trying for a hospital again. It doesn't take much to live. And I don't believe in a doctor's making money. If it isn't the hospital well, there's enough to do." Miss Hitchcock thought a moment, and then remarked unexpectedly, "I like that idea!" "About all my kick over things has come to that point.
Under the influence of the fresh autumn air his spirits rose; he found himself enjoying the swift rattle of the cart and the beat of the horse's feet. After all, think of Caddy's grit; think of her fine constitution! A fighting chance that was little enough to say, though. Why couldn't he have put it a little stronger? Hitchcock always was a pessimist.
Hitchcock "just elegant!" and believed that Mary was jealous when she said she did not like him. Something now prompted her to tell him about the silk waist in the forbidden sack; he took her view at once and zealously. Hadn't Lena heard about that? Well, it was a burning shame, he could tell her; he would see that she, Lena, wasn't fooled that way.
The dinner at the Hitchcocks' was very simple. Parker had gone out "to enjoy his success in not getting to Cuba," as Colonel Hitchcock expressed it grimly. The old merchant's manner toward the doctor was cordial, but constrained. At times during the dinner Sommers found Colonel Hitchcock's eyes resting upon him, as if he were trying to understand him.
I must go now." A few minutes later, Sommers met Colonel Hitchcock in the dressing room. As he was leaving, the old merchant detained him. "Are you going north? Perhaps you will wait for me and let me take you to the city. Louise is going on to a dance." Sommers waited outside the room. From the bedroom at the end of the hall came a soft murmur of women's voices.
Among them were President Hopkins of Williams College, President Hitchcock of Amherst College, and President Felton of Harvard College. Hopkins might properly be termed a wise man. He resembled President Walker who for several years presided over Harvard. Felton was a genial man, of sufficient learning for his office, and exceedingly popular with the students and with the public.
The convention en masse saw the ratification of both Houses on August 2 by unanimous vote and had the joy of being present when it was signed by the Governor, who had been a consistent friend of the cause. The regular session had memorialized Congress by joint resolution to submit the Federal Suffrage Amendment and requested Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska to vote for it.
And Bill is a goin' down the river to find his body; for him and Walter Hitchcock have searched the whole place since seven o'clock this mornin'!" "May be there's a murder in it," said a young woman, cheerfully. "He were an old man to wander off alone, and there's allays evil-doers round about for the unprotected."
Once a dripping servant brought him food, but he could not eat; and once he thought that he heard a faint toot from a locomotive across the river, and then he smiled. The bridge's failure would hurt his assistant not a little, but Hitchcock was a young man with his big work yet to do. For himself the crash meant everything everything that made a hard life worth the living.
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