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Horace Chase

Chapter 7 No.7

Word Count: 811    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

standing beside Ruth in the parlor at L'Hommedieu; for Miss Billy and Maud Muriel were the bridesmaids. Maud Muriel had consented with solemnity. "It is strange that such a m

as in reality not so much

o engage its attention. First, there was Mrs. Franklin, looking very distinguished; then Genevieve, the most beautiful woman present. Then there was Bishop Carew, who had come from Wilmington to officiate. All Asheville admired the bishop-the handsome, kin

kintosh was attired for the first time in her life in ample soft draperies. Her hair, too, arranged by Miss Billy, had no lo

this (and haunted by his old idea)

three. Then, as soon as this is over, hurry to yo

is brother Richard. For Nicholas and Richard were millionaires many times over; their business in life was investment. Asheville itself, meanwhile, hardly comprehended the importance of such an event as the presence within its borders of a New York capitalist; it knew very little about New York, still less about capitalists. Mrs. Franklin, ho

must admire unflinchingly everything he says and everything he does-swallow him whole, as it were; it isn't difficult to swallow things whole! Just watch me." And, in truth, it was Jared's jocularity that enlivened th

ed; his eyes, which were usually too keen, had a softness that was new to them. He was very silent; he let his best man talk for him. Walter Willoughby

y pretty. The excitement had given her

his wife over the mountains, through the magnificent forest, now gorgeous with the

thing left but the scattered rice on the ground, and Pet

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