Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3 by William Dean Howells
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general doesn't like the cooking here. They ought to have been back
before this." He looked up at the clock on the wall, and she said, "I suppose you would like us to wait." "It would be very kind of you." "Oh, it's quite essential," she returned with an airy freshness which Kenby did not seem to feel as painfully as he ought. They all sat down, and the Triscoes came in after a few minutes, and a cloud on the general's face lifted at the proposition Kenby left Mrs. March to make. "I thought that child ought to be in his mother's charge," he said. With his own comfort provided for, he made no objections to Mrs. March's plan; and Agatha went to take leave of Rose and his mother. "By-the-way," the general turned to March, "I found Stoller at the restaurant where we supped. He offered me a place in his carriage for the manoeuvres. How are you going?" "I think I shall go by train. I don't fancy the long drive." "Well, I don't know that it's worse than the long walk after you leave the train," said the general from the offence which any difference of taste was apt to give him. "Are you going by train, too?" he asked Kenby with indifference. "I'm not going at all," said Kenby. "I'm leaving Wurzburg in the |
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