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One felt in her the epitome, the consummation, of centuries of animal maternity, so that this little woman, who screamed at a mouse and was nervous about burglars, came to typify the cave-mother rending her prey for her young. It was less easy to regard philosophically the practical effects of her borrowed motherhood. Lethbury found with surprise that she was becoming assertive and definite.
Nearly everything, in fact." "That proves my point," said Lanigan; "for nearly everything was gone when I left." "And some of the things that are gone," said she, "you still owe me for." "Well put, Calthy," said Lanigan, laughing; "and after that, let's drop the business. What's new and what's stale in Lethbury?" "You are about the newest as well as the stalest thing here," said she.
"Oh, I hope not. I want it so much to be a reality " He paused to smile at the limitations of a world in which jokes were not realities, and continued gently: "But since it is one already " "To us, I mean: to you and me. I want " her voice wavered, and her eyes with it. "I have always wanted so dreadfully...it has been such a disappointment...not to..." "I see," said Lethbury slowly.
But everything about Stephen Petter was odd, so ten years before he had conceived the notion that such a man as he would like to be would be entirely unwilling to live in the little village of Lethbury, where he had no opportunity of exercising an influence upon his fellow-beings.
Tippengray that she was sorry he had not taken his evening meal with them the day before. "I took such a long walk," said the Greek scholar, "that I concluded to sup in Lethbury." "Those Lethbury people usually take tea at five," said his hostess. "But I'm not a Lethbury person," said he, "and I took my tea at seven." Mrs. Petter looked at him with twinkles in her eyes.
Lethbury made an impatient gesture. "What are you afraid of? His finding her out or his not finding her out?" Mrs. Lethbury flushed. "You put it so dreadfully!" Her husband mused for a moment; then he said with an air of cheerful hypocrisy: "After all, Budd is old enough to take care of himself." But the next day Mrs. Lethbury surprised him.
Perhaps they might walk all the way to Lethbury, for all she knew. At this moment a man came up to the porch. It was Lanigan Beam, and his soul was troubled.
His manner indicating this, Miss Calthea immediately entered into a most attractive description of a house picturesquely situated on the outskirts of Lethbury, which would probably soon be vacated on account of the owner's desire to go West. At the other end of the extensive lawn two persons walked backward and forward near the edge of the trees perfectly satisfied and untroubled.
Then she declared that she had not believed that any part of the world could be as interesting as that region which Mr. Tippengray had been describing to her, and that she was sorry she could not sit there all the morning and listen to him, but duty was duty, and it was necessary for her to return to Lethbury.
But the blow was suspended. Mr. Budd's chivalry was proof against all his bride's caprices, and his devotion throve on her cruelty. Lethbury feared that he was too faithful, too enduring, and longed to urge him to vary his tactics.
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