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You
have lost your nerve, Monty. Don't you see that this is the time
for an aggressive campaign?" Somehow she was not saying things at
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But Monty did mind enormously. He had no desire to talk about the
thing anyway, and Peggy's anxiety to marry him off seemed a bit
unnecessary. Manifestly her own interest in him was of the
coldest. From out of the gloom he looked at her somewhat sullenly.
For the moment she was thinking only of his pain, and her face
said nothing.
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answering her, "you don't in the least know what you are talking
about. It is not a fit of anger on Barbara Drew's part. It is a
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And Peggy, fiery and determined and defiantly unhappy, threw down
her cards and escaped so that she might not prove herself
tearfully feminine. She left Brewster still heavily enveloped in
melancholy; but she left him puzzled. He began to wonder if
Barbara Drew did have something in the back of her mind.
Then he
found his thoughts wandering off toward Peggy and her defiance. He
had only twice before seen her in that mood, and he liked it.
He
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and hated a girl he admired. Suddenly he laughed aloud at the
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moment. The laugh surprised the man who brought in some letters.
One of them was from "Nopper" Harrison, and gave him all the
private news. The ball was to be given at mid-Lent, which arrived
toward the end of March, and negotiations were well under way for
the chartering of the "Flitter," the steam-yacht belonging to
Reginald Brown, late of Brown & Brown.
The letter made Brewster chafe under the bonds of inaction. His
affairs were getting into a discouraging state. The illness was
certain to entail a loss of more than $50,000 to his business. His
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from Gardner, who was managing the brief American tour of the
Viennese orchestra. Quarrels and dissensions were becoming every-
day embarrassments, and the venture was an utter failure from a
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orchestra, and there was imminent danger of a collapse in the
organization. Gardner lived in constant fear that his troop of
quarrelsome Hungarians would finish their tour suddenly in a
pitched battle with daggers and steins. Brewster smiled at the
thought of practical Gardner trying to smooth down the electric
emotions of these musicians.
A few days later Mrs. Prentiss Drew and Mi ... |
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