All her tender lures, inherent and acquired, had shattered themselves futilely against the reserve he had set between them. Both ladies were on easy and friendly terms with all that was best in Morningside Park society; they had an afternoon once a month that was quite well attended, they sometimes gave musical evenings, they dined out and gave a finish to people’s dinners, they had a full-sized croquet lawn and tennis beyond, and understood the art of bringing people together. “While that lamb was about every man of any spirit was regarded as a dangerous wolf. Wood dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion, essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. The shouts, yells, and groans which they uttered, and which were echoed by the concourse in the rear, were perfectly frightful. " "Lord bless us! you alarm me. CHAPTER XI. A wave of pity went over him—pity for the patient, the girl, and his friend. He perceived, however, that both the novels he read and the world he lived in discountenanced these assumptions. There was no need of sowing suspicion when he wasn't really certain there were grounds for it. ‘Very well, mademoiselle, so be it,’ he snapped. His friendship seemed a thing worth having.
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