Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete by William Dean Howells
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freer now than they had been since the ship sailed; when she rose to go
below, she caught sight of Burnamy walking the deck transversely with some lady. She clutched her husband's arm and stayed him in rich conjecture. "Do you suppose he can have got her to walking with him already?" They waited till Burnamy and his companion came in sight again. She was tilting forward, and turning from the waist, now to him and now from him. "No; it's that pivotal girl," said March; and his wife said, "Well, I'm glad he won't be put down by them." In the music-room sat the people she meant, and at the instant she passed on down the stairs, the daughter was saying to the father, "I don't see why you didn't tell me sooner, papa." "It was such an unimportant matter that I didn't think to mention it. He offered it, and I took it; that was all. What difference could it have made to you?" "None. But one doesn't like to do any one an injustice." "I didn't know you were thinking anything about it." "No, of course not." |
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