Vertrees

He looked out into the lemon-colored light and smiled wanly at the next house, as Edith's grandiose phrase came to mind, "the old Vertrees country mansion."

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"And you think if I spread this gossip about Vertrees the First stealing Dan'l Boone's gun, the chances that they will call --"

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I went to that icicle -- that Vertrees girl -- and she could have helped me a little, and it wouldn't have hurt her.

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They had reached the head of the central aisle, and as the organist finished speaking Bibbs stopped short, turning to look at Mary Vertrees in a dazed way that was not of her perceiving; for, though she stopped as he did, her gaze followed the organist, who was walking away from them toward the front of the church, shaking his white Beethovian mane roguishly.

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It was a threat, and Bibbs repeated the substance of it, later in the evening, to Mary Vertrees -- they had come to know each other that well.

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There was something about him, too, that explained how "queer" many people might think him; but he did not seem "queer" to Mary Vertrees; he seemed the most quaintly natural person she had ever met.

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For this was his last thought before he walked to the coupe and saw Mary Vertrees standing, all alone, on the other side of the drive.

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"I'm afraid Miss Vertrees will miss her piano," said Sibyl, watching the instrument disappear into the big van at the curb.

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And to crown it all, papa went and bought the next lot to the old Vertrees country mansion -- it's in the very heart of the best new residence district now, and that's where the New House is, right next door to them -- and I must say it makes their place look rather shabby!

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But I shouldn't think it would matter much whether he was or not, if he could get Miss Vertrees to play to him.

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