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"He is an excellent young man." "May I trouble you to put on your things at once, Miss Ansell?" said Sidney. "I have left Addie in the carriage, and we are rather late. I believe it is usual for ladies to put on 'things, even when in evening dress.
He thought that he ought to tell Nancy of his engagement, not that it was quite an engagement yet, but he could not do it just now. "What was it you were going to tell me this morning? About Addie Porter, wasn't it?" He laughed a little, and then colored deeply. He had been somewhat foolish in his attentions to this young person, the beguiling village belle of East Rodney and the adjacent coasts.
He wore an air of elegant leisure, but was otherwise not fussily arrayed. "Dave, Mis' Pett'ngill says there's now a day's washin' to do over to her place to-morrow. What think?" Dave deliberated, then pondered, then thought, then spoke: "Well, I d'no', Addie; I d'no' as I got any objections if you ain't. I d'no' but it's all the same to me."
You know, Addie dear, I have come to the conclusion that Judaism exercises a strange centrifugal and centripetal effect on its sons sometimes it repulses them, sometimes it draws them; only it never leaves them neutral. Now, here had I deliberately made up my mind not to marry a Jewess." "Oh! Why not?" said Addie, pouting. "Merely because she would be a Jewess. It's a fact."
His three or four portraits of fat American ladies they were all fat, all ladies and all American were a poor show compared with these triumphs; especially as Addie had begun to throw out that it was about time they should go home. It kept perpetually coming up in Paris, in the transpontine world, that, as the phrase was, America had grown more interesting since they left.
It is an engraved announcement which reads: "Mrs. Pinkney Rogers announces the marriage of her daughter, Pearl May, to Mr. Lee Burnham" She never read the rest. She never saw the "on Tuesday, May thirtieth nineteen hundred and one. At Home, Rome, Georgia, after July fifth." Her sister, Addie, coming up the stairs, thought she heard a moan and hurried in to find Stella lying in a crumpled heap.
She sprang to her feet and stood looking at her sister: "What jolly hair you've got, Addie!" "Yours is just as thick, or thicker," said Addie. "Each individual hair is a good deal thicker, if you mean that. 'Blue-black, lustrous, thick like horse-hairs! That's what Percy quoted to me one day when I was grumbling, and I said I wasn't sure he wasn't rude.
There will be something to battle with and beat." And she stretched out a strong, beautiful white arm from which the loose open sleeve fell back, as if with that weapon of might she would strike poverty to the earth; but it was only to adjust the pillow, which had slipped sideways from the loved head. "But Mr. Armstrong will not want to marry you now, Addie."
As they drove, Mina heard more of Lady Evenswood among other things, that she had known Addie Tristram as a child; this fact impressed the Imp beyond all the rest. But Lady Evenswood herself made a greater impression still.
All is that one day in November of 1889, Addie arrived at the Church Street house with a forlorn parcel of a little girl and a bedraggled bag that contained her entire worldly possessions. She was ill and old. Addie had come back to the only human refuge she knew. She was too ill and too beaten by life to work.
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