Some one was giving a dinner dance at the country club, and Blount, who was a week-endguest of the Beverleys, was ill-natured enough to be resentful. What right had a gay andfrivolous world to come and thrust its light-hearted happiness upon him when Patricia hadsaid "No"? It was like bullying a cripple, he told himself morosely, and when he had readthe single telegram which had come while he was at dinner he begged Mrs. Beverley'sindulgence and went out to find a chair in a corner of the veranda where the frivolities ...
Read More
Some one was giving a dinner dance at the country club, and Blount, who was a week-endguest of the Beverleys, was ill-natured enough to be resentful. What right had a gay andfrivolous world to come and thrust its light-hearted happiness upon him when Patricia hadsaid "No"? It was like bullying a cripple, he told himself morosely, and when he had readthe single telegram which had come while he was at dinner he begged Mrs. Beverley'sindulgence and went out to find a chair in a corner of the veranda where the frivolities hadnot as yet intruded.It was a North Shore night like that in which Shakespeare has mingled moon-shadows withthe gossamer fantasies of the immortal "Dream." Though the dance was in-doors, the treeson the lawn and the road-fronting verandas of the club-house were hung with festoons ofChinese lanterns. At the carriage-entrance smart automobiles were coming and going, andone of them, with the dust of the Boston parkways on its running-gear, brought the guestsof honor-three daughters of a Western senator lately home from their summer abroad.Blount knew neither the honorers nor the honored ones, and had resolutely refused thechance offered him by Mrs. Beverley to amend his ignorance. For Patricia's "No" was notyet twenty-four hours old, and since it had changed the stars in their courses for Patricia'slover, the cataclysm was much too recent to postulate anything like a return of theheavenly bodies to their normal orbits.Not that Blount put it that way, either to Mrs. Beverley or to himself. He was a level-eyed, square-shouldered young man of an up-to-date world, and the stock from which he sprangwas prosaic and practical rather than poetic or sentimental. But the fact remained, andwhen he sat back in his corner absently folding the lately received telegram into a narrowspill and scowling moodily down upon the coming and going procession of motor-cars hewas unconsciously giving a very life-like imitation of the disappointed lover the world over.It was thus, and apparently by the merest chance, that Gantry found him; a chance becausethe Winnebasset club-house is spacious and the dinner dance minimized the hazards of ameeting between two unattached men who were merely transient guests. But the railroadman at least was unfeignedly glad.
Read Less
Add this copy of The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush to cart. $6.43, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2014 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Add this copy of The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush to cart. $17.82, very good condition, Sold by Bradley's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Florence, CO, UNITED STATES, published 1913 by SCRIBNERS.
Add this copy of The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush to cart. $24.35, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by CreateSpace Independent Publis.
Add this copy of The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush to cart. $30.18, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2011 by Tredition Classics.
Add this copy of The Honorable Senator Sage Brush to cart. $34.31, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2014 by Literary Licensing, LLC.
Add this copy of The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush to cart. $39.50, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2011 by Tredition Classics.
Add this copy of The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush to cart. $44.95, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2007 by BiblioBazaar.
Add this copy of The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush to cart. $47.02, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2007 by BiblioBazaar.
