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You and she fly me as though I were no longer fit to be your companion. Even the servants talked. Aunt Pattie and I had to set ourselves at once to devise the most elaborate falsehoods, or Heaven knows where the talk would have spread. How had I deserved such a humiliation? Yet, when I meet Miss Foster again, she behaves as though she owed me not a word of excuse.
"But wait a minute, 'Liza," interrupted Mother Mayberry with a laugh, "them love jinks twixt Buck and Pattie is most interesting, but I'm waiting to hear about your Aunt Prissy and Mr. Petway. It's liable to be serious when two folks as old as they is but go on with your tale, honey."
'It is the old story, he said. 'Life would be tolerable but for one's virtues. All this time, I beg to point out, Aunt Pattie, that you have still told us nothing about the young lady except something about her clothes, which doesn't matter. Mrs. Burgoyne's amused gesture showed the woman's view of this remark. Miss Manisty looked puzzled. 'Well I don't know. Yes I have told you a great deal.
'Eleanor, we have been like children sporting over the abyss! Mrs. Burgoyne rose with a laugh a very soft and charming laugh by no means the least among the various gifts with which nature had endowed her. 'Oh, civilisation has resources, she said 'Aunt Pattie and I will take care of you. Now we have got a quarter of an hour to dress in.
You and she disappear, and you leave me to bear my affront the outrage done me as best I may. You alarm, you distress all your friends. Your father takes things calmly, I admit. But even he has been anxious. Aunt Pattie has been miserable. As for me He rose, and began to pace up and down before her; struggling with his own wrath.
Pattie Boyden, and she's so pretty that even women forgive her. Anything else you want to know?" "Yes. Why do I want to bite Paul Gresham?" "Hush!" admonished Loring. "He is the remnant of one of our very best imported families, and he needs the money. He sells a piece of father's property every year, and he haunts Miss Joy like a pestilence. I think he's mixed up in her million some way or other.
He was in the prime of life; he had a property that cried out for an heir; and a rambling Georgian house that would be the better for a mistress. He was tolerably sure that Aunt Pattie had already had glimpses of Eleanor Burgoyne in that position. Well if so, Aunt Pattie was less shrewd than usual. Marriage!
Pattie Ruffner Jacobs of Alabama and Mrs. Nellie McClung of Canada joined the squadron and spoke at several points. Among others of influence who filled many speaking engagements and met their own expenses were Mrs. Henry M. Russell and Rabbi H. Silver of Wheeling; Milliard F. Snider and the Hon. Harvey W. Harmar of Clarksburg; Judge Frank Cox and ex-Governor Glasscock of Morgantown.
I have written to Papa to say that I am going away for a time with a friend, to rest and recruit. You and Aunt Pattie could easily arrange that there should be no talk and no gossip about the matter. I hope and think you will. Of course if we are in any strait or difficulty we shall communicate at once with our friends. How had he received it?
Tutt's Maryland tea, and Pattie Hoover's Maiden's Blush mingled its sweetness with that of the dainty white-cluster that climbed around Mrs. Bostick's window. A haunting perfume from the new-mown clover fields drifted over it all and the glistening silver poplar leaves danced in the breezes.
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