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her in the carriage herself, and gave the order to Jackson to drive her home. "Tell Maria to telephone me here in half an hou

ining they might not know he was ill," said Mrs. Moon, while Mrs. Tazewell, full of symp

ryor's chair, waved the turkey-wing fan back and forth, but with fingers not so firm

ars he has been the husband of Lizzie Pryor, and he has earned his reward. I don't believe in a golden-harp heaven. Not being musical, William and I wouldn't know what to do

able in the general uprising due to Mrs. Pryor's departure, "but I've always felt

of it, and make their husbands spend their lives in an eternal effort to please. That's what poor William was forever attemptin

to go to her sister's in Washington to get new dresses for Maria and Anna Belle and Sue, and Mr. Pryor had ventured to say he didn't have the money. You ought to have seen her! She hardly spoke to me, and Louisa t

ook out her spectacles and laid them on the table. "Any kind of woman can be endured better than a sulking woman. She's worse than

from the North, and her voice was astonishe

ed over herself and her loneliness so persistently that Willia

lly true the way they s

e was now lost, was ag

urned so quickly toward h

if Mr. Pryor did anything she didn't like, she would lie flat down on her back and kick her

r herself, she lay on her back and kicked. When she wanted it for the chil

ing for. I know the talk that has been going around lately about Mary Cary. Lizzie Pryor has led it, and I came here this morning to tell her so. The people in Yorkburg are like all other people. They pat the fa

e Mary's friends and oughtn't to be taken to task for what w

l this twaddle about her great wealth and Western ways and numberless beaux. It's the last that sticks

Mrs. Moon spoke for th

't you remember

, too-and went to the house prepared to speak the word. I remember the night very well. He tiptoed up the front steps and stood on the porch where he could hear voices in the parlor. Puss and her mother wer

od and so mimicked his thin, piping voice that all l

she wished to keep her old friends in Yorkburg she should be more careful in making new acquaintances. Now this is what I want understood. She is my friend. If any one wishes to ask questions about her, come to me. For statements made against her I will go to them. She ha

id, excitedly, "somebody done phone from Mis' Pryor's and say Mr. Pryor done gone and died.

ith shocked and frightened faces,

Lizzie knew he could never eat sausage, a