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d only one another's protection and the general safety of the social atmosphere. We could not conceal from ourselves, of course, that we had done a rather romantic thing, and,

s as docile and as biddable as need be. She did not always ask what she should do; that would not have been in the tradition of village independence; but she always did what she was told, and did not vary from her instructions a hair's-breadth. I do not suppose she a

ll our plans in regard to her, and, in fact, he even anticipated our wishes. I do not mean to give the notion that he behaved from an interested motive in going to the station the morning Mrs. Deering left, and getting her tic

be consoled after Mrs. Deering departed. They came straight to us from the train, and then, when he had consigned Miss Gage to Mrs. March's

s that his help was wanted. But when he did come he had formulated Saratoga very compl

fore more than once; but it always pleasantly recalled our wander-years, when we first met in Europe, and we suffered round after those young things with a patience which I hope will not be forgotten at the day of judgmen

ay of a seaside cottage in our own country, and we talked up a little paper that might be done for Every O

es behind. Might have a thread of story, but mostly talk about how they came to do it, and how delightfully livable they found it. You could work it up with some architect, who would help you to 'k

t Fulkerson says. He

u like t

self? Nobody else c

taffy; but the

endricks after a mom

ll s

red, and Mrs.

ouse of Pansa would lea

girl, "What should YOU think, Miss Gage, of a little paper with a th

far too remote from our literary interests

ricks. "Do you think th

e, who had followed the course of my thought; her

"dreamily issuing from an aisle of the pine gro

said, "You needn't pay any attention to him, Mis

Pansa, and I proposed that we should go and sit down in Congress Park and listen

ind the young people as we went, and she ask

ght it was the hou

ven as that. It's astonishing how much she does

t of such 'homes'-and the State business directory. I was astonished when it came out that she knew about Every Other Week. It must have been by accident. The sordidness of her home life must be something unimaginable. The daughter of a village capitalist, who's put together his m

t seem sord

doesn't show

put not for

opening of

hat would l

lower, beautif

ll as this father of hers. Why s

other out of the count when we sum up the hereditary tendenc

son why this girl shouldn't

"but if her mother lived a starved and stunted life with him, it may account for

a young girl to want to se

o you c

he pavilion, and looking round at us. "Ah, he's got e

one that had spread across the sidewalk just below the Congress Hall verandah, with banks and shelves of novels, and

inside the park," I sai

ine. I had newly become one of the owners of the periodical as well as the editor, and I was all the time looking out for it at the news-sta

re. I know you're up here to look about, and you're letting us use all your time. You mustn't do it. Women have no conscience about these things

nd," said the young fellow, with that indefatigable poli

ll, I'll own that I don't think you could have found a

at first, but it was

we could read books with that ut

men generally do?"

hey do at De

of my own. His delicacy forbade him the indulgence which my own protested against in vain. He showed his taste again in buying a cheap copy