The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
ings I might have had about him wore away very quickly on closer acquaintance. In the first place he looked well in evening dress, carrying himself with a sort of shy, kind air that became him
as the two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar gown she wore, but I could see it was deeper than that. She was thawing in the sunshine of love, and I'll do Doctor Jones the justice to say that he didn't hide his affection under a bushel. It was generous enough for everybody to bask in, and in case anything happened at night! Eleanor said it was a beautiful profession that had for its object the alleviation of human pain. Freddy jealously tried to get in a good word for boxers, but nobody would listen to her except me. It was all Jones, Jones, Jones, and the triumphs of modern medicine. Altogether he sailed through that whole day with flying colors, first with the housemaid, and then afterward at church, where he was the only one that kn
lling back on a sofa at the dark end of the room. What particularly arrested my attention was a groan-preceded by a pack of h
matter, Jo
he sofa, and groane
fused you?" I exclaimed. He mutt
bout your mot
I was the worst kind of fool ever
ttling in my head to buy that Seventy-second St
to choose between her and the woman I love. And I owe so much to my mother, Westoby. She stinted hersel
consent to stand between you and your lifelong happiness. It's mo
ertha," he
tt, and wh
Nutt, you know. She'd really prefer me not to marry at a
to say that n
for me to go home
e down here; you sweep that unfortunate girl off her feet; you make love to her with the fury of a stage villain; you
her-" h
not act so disho
nt for a li
he started in
other loves yo
rible part of i
oo
erself to get
id you ever
question I'm as
a woman of a thousand-unimpeachable social position-a little fortune of her own-accomplished, handsome
wouldn't.
be a little tin hero, but I'd go through fire and water fo
t a few m
ess. If you went away to-night it would be an insult. Whatever you dec
e of a person who is ordered
man has t
white tie. I should have loved to give him a bowstring instead, with somebod