She looked at him gravely and squinted. " "How had he offended you?" inquired the widow. ‘He arst me to find him someone who might go with you. “I didn’t know you objected to him, daddy. He was always word-building, a metaphorist, lavish with singing adjectives; but often he built in confusion because it was difficult to describe something beautiful in a new yet simple way. That night in his den he smoked many pipes. This time he couldn't get far. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. She did not learn the kind of looks she had been bestowing upon him at a convent. Great stone staircases leading no one knew whither, and long gloomy passages, impressed the occasional visitor with the idea that he was traversing a building of vast extent; and, though this was not the case in reality, the deception was so cleverly contrived that it seldom failed of producing the intended effect. For a long time there had been a standing offer from the company at Copeley's to take over the McClintock plantation; and today he had decided to sell. ” She sat motionless, with her hand tightening over the edge of the table, and he, too, said no more. If she delayed a day she would delay two days, if she delayed two days she would delay a week, and after a week things would be adjusted to submission forever.
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