The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
ain. I told her so straight out in the first angry flush of my rejection-but this string busine
at I'm engaged and
lly. "You're as free as free, Ezra. You can go
fess it gave me a kind of savage pleasure to
rry before her elder sister! I always thought it was beautiful of Freddy (she was named Frederica, you know) to be always so sweet and tender and grateful about Eleanor; but sometimes gratitude can be carried altogether too far, even if you are an orphan
hat she herself had failed. She's awfully frank about those things, Ezra-surprisingly frank. I don't see why being an old m
ve had heaps of offe
st
remarked cheerfully. "Why
st night that she wa
. I saw a gleam of hope. Why shouldn't Elea
ee years ago,
s beginning-"Tell me some more about him," I went on. I'm a plain business man and hang on to an idea like a bulldog; once Iame, where he
our Pullman drawing-room twice over-to Doctor Jones and his mother, and also to ourselves. Y
she" (it was on the tip of my tong
marry a man who was her
was
ce, and all that, and tremendously
to chase him up instantly.
was going to New York
from him again? I mean, wa
es
ven know if he ha
N
r d
N
ything
N
s his fi
let me think ...
ones, then, N
aughed f
his Sherlock Holmes business-backward and forward, you know. Let's take Doctor
York
and ends there,
es
r would marry him if I did manage
t sure
t. You told me yourself that she-I wa
y ref
t sorry she hadn't acce
much, does it?" I
quite seriously. She always hides her feeling
very difficult famil
orphan-"
ng to find tha
crazy. How could you t
little gir
second
as crying and smiling both at once. I took the little case she gave me-it was like
at the f-f-full of the moon. It's supposed to be l-l-lucky. It was given to
d I started brav