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And a sprinkling of the real celebrities too," she added. Selma's inquiry had been put with a view to satisfy herself that Flossy's friends were mere civilians. But she was glad of an opportunity to be enlightened as to the names of her fellow-officials, though she resented Flossy's flippant tone regarding the character of the entertainment.
Taylor had bought it as it stood, and his wife had made no attempt to alter the outside, which was, after all, inoffensively homely. But the interior was bewildering to Selma's gaze in its suggestion of cosey comfort.
Society here is divided into sets, and they are not in my set. I prefer mine, and fortunately, for I can't afford to belong to theirs." "Oh!" The frigidity and dryness of the exclamation Littleton ascribed to Selma's intuitive enmity to the vanities of life. "You mustn't pass judgment on them too hastily," he said.
Selma, on her side, took up the organization of the Free Hospital provided by Mr. Parsons. Her husband left the decision of all but legal and financial questions to her and Miss Luella Bailey, who, at Selma's request, was made the third member of the board of trustees.
And she, his wife the one who loved him best in the world, was powerless to intervene. Nay, she had intervened, and modern science had mocked her. Selma's eyes, like the glint of two swords, bent themselves on her husband's bed. A righteous anger reinforced her grieving heart and made her spirit militant, while the creeping hours passed.
But during that same three months Selma's attention was constantly attracted to the Williamses by prominent newspaper allusions to their prosperity and growing fashionable prestige. What they did and where they went were chronicled in the then new style journalistic social gossip, and the every-day world was made familiar with his financial opinions and his equipages and her toilettes.
After walking two hours he sat down on a log in the shade near where the highroad crossed Foaming Creek. He became so absorbed in his thoughts that he sprang to his feet with a wild look when Selma's voice said, close by: "May I interrupt a moment, Mr. Hull?" He recovered slowly. His cheeks were pale and his voice uncertain as he replied: "You? I beg your pardon.
Offended with Pauline," exclaimed Littleton, who entered the room at the moment. "It cannot be that my two guardian angels have had a falling out." He looked from one to the other brightly as if it were really a joke. "It is nothing," said Selma. "It seems," said Pauline with fervor, "that I have unintentionally hurt Selma's feelings.
Littleton departing, tickled by a pleasant sense of humor, caught through the parlor window a last glimpse of Selma's inspired face bowing gravely, yet wistfully, in acknowledgment of his lifted hat, and he strode away under the spell of a brain picture which he transmuted into words: "There's the sort of case where the cynical foreigner fails to appreciate the true import of our American life.
I have the honor to introduce Mrs. Lewis Babcock." After the first flush of nervousness, Selma's grave dignity came to her support, and justified her completely in her own eyes.
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