Part 7 (1/2)
”He told you all about hi”
”That's just it!” exclai her ”After he has talked me into a state of collapse, every word about himself and his career, I think it all over, and wonder whether there's anything to the man or not Sometimes I think there's a real person beneath that flow of vanity Then, again, I think not”
”Whether he's an accident or a plan,” ht did not appreciate the cleverness and the penetration of her remark Indeed, she knew in advance that he would not, for she knew his li would have appreciated it--and clapped me on the ar
”Very ht satirically
”He has ability to do things He has strength He isn't like us”
Arkwright winced ”I'erate him, merely because he's different”
”He makes me feel an added contempt for myself, somehow Doesn't he you?”
”I can't say he does,” replied Arkwright, irritated ”I appreciate his good qualities, but I can't help being offended and disturbed for him by his crudities He has an idea that to be polite and well-dressed is to be weak and worthless And I can't get it out of his head”
Margaret's sreat men are more or less rude and crude, aren't they?” said she ”They are impatient of the trifles we lay so reat aret, with exasperating deliberateness ”I want to find out”
”And if you decide that he is, you'll ested it the other day”
”In jest,” said Arkwright, unaccountably angry with her, with himself, with Joshua ”As soon as I saw hi a piece of rare, delicate porcelain to a grizzly as a plaything”
He was surprised at himself Now that he was face to face with a possibility of her adopting his own proposition, he disliked it intensely He looked at her; never had she see, so representative of what he called distinction At the very idea of such refine, his blood boiled ”Josh is a fine, splendid chap, as amen,” said he to himself ”But to raceful outrage He's not fit to irl shouldn't have the accessories toeyes away, lest she should see and attach too --for, he felt it would be a pitiful weakness, a betrayal of opportunity, for him to marry, in a mood of passion that passes, a woht to demand both birth and wealth in his wife
”I've often thought,” pursued Margaret, ”that to be loved by a ”
”While being loved by one of your own sort would be dull?” suggested Arkwright with a strained sed her bare white shoulders in an inflao with hted,” said Arkwright And he did not realize that the deep-hidden source of his enthusias would make an ass of himself
CHAPTER V
ALMOST HOOKED
In hureat and small, there are always ly tucked away underneath all these reasons that ht to be and pretend to be but aren't, hides the real reason, the real s there is an unwritten law against the exposing of this real reason, whose naked and ugly face would put in sorry countenance professions of patriotism or philanthropy or altruism or virtue of whatever kind Stillwater, the Attorney-General and Craig's chief, had a dozen reasons for letting him appear alone for the Administration--that is, for the people--in that important case Each of these reasons--except one--shed a pure, white light upon Stillwater's public spirit and private generosity That one was the reason supposed by Mrs
Stillwater to be real ”Since you don't see, Pa,” said she, in the seclusion of the ht as well hter