Robert Kimberly

rried life are likely to be long enough to chart pretty accurately the currents of t

plement of this is true, and our consort knows more of us; but this thought, not always reassuring, comes only when we reflect concerning ourse

e into the Kimberly circle, and with the probability of remaining in it, of its being to her a new picture of life, Alice gradually renewed her youth. Som

n the least how clearly those about them discriminated between his wife and himself. She

igher than they could have been elsewhere. She breathed in her new atmosphere with a renewed confidence, for nothing is more gratifying than to be judged

by them as a man who had forced recognition from the Kimberly interests, made on his side, too, a

even with him MacBirney maintained easily the reputation accorded to Western me

of those less fortunate Eastern men who were unwilling or unable to a

the Kimberlys themselves, the appearance of MacBirney on the scene at Second Lake was a matter of interest to every one

l took a hand in going over MacBirney, so to say, and grading him up. They found for one thing that he could talk without saying anything; which in conducting negotiations was an excelle

evening spent at the Nelsons', whence Robert Kimberly had come home with the De Castros and MacBirneys. Alice had sung for them. After accepting for the De Castro dinner, Robert at

the night, spoke of Robert's absence. "I don't quite under

e, you know--when we called at his house, and twice at the Nelsons'. And I saw v

. "Don't say 'tha

r. I don't see that they excel in a

as the Romans do," sugg

"Or at least let the Romans do a

d. "I don't know just what to

, or the

nging-chair, emphasized the last words, as he could do when impatient, and shut h

. "Charles," she suggested, tying

t better acquainted with Robert," he continued, knitting his brow

! We didn't exchan

t the way i

And more on his account, from what Dolly had said to me, than anybody else's. H

did say s

ff remark when

eft her table. M

arms as she passed, in a way he did when he wished to seem affectionate, MacBirney drew his wife

d like him--possibl

"he took the trouble to repeat: 'That song was

id she learn till long afterward that he had lied to her that night. With her feelings in some degree appe

d his shoulders.

s to his with an effort, "to be as pleasant a

cultivate Robert Kimberly. He is the third rail in this combination, and he is

hat t

rt, in confidence, a

le fellow. I wouldn't belie

ntly. "Pshaw! You hate him becau

cause he is a Catholic

at, Allie. Anyway, try being pleasant to Kimberly. The way you know how to be, Allie--the w

such thin

as only

e such

" persisted MacBirney amiably, "you

it make so much difference to you, Wal

cried in a subdued tone. And his ways of speech, if ever attractive, were now too fa

t they had de

he, as president, has been given the power to fix the pr

to smile if I had

her husband impatiently, "just like your fath

do

idea when he left his wife's room, a

in the darkness for a