Pelgram

Boston that evening, and soon afterward Miss Maitland took her departure, escorted by Pelgram.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

Thus it chanced that the talk was still on Pelgram when the doorbell rang and the butler announced that Mr. Wilkinson was calling.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

Helen, for her part, had never given him any other encouragement than to express her approval of some of his pictures that she honestly liked, but Pelgram needed no other encouragement.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

Pelgram disliked him intensely, but he did not feel the slightest hesitation on that account in accepting the artist's hospitality, and in fact quite enjoyed the prospect of a dash into the enemy's country.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

Several tall potted plants nearly hid the alcove from the studio at large, and Pelgram noted with satisfaction that the remaining guests were mostly grouped about

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

As Wilkinson's extreme disinclination for industry of any legitimate sort was well known to all the party, Mr. Hurd's innocently expressed but barb-pointed question brought a general smile, and Pelgram permitted himself the luxury of a suggestive cough.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

"Oh, nonsense, Charlie!" said Pelgram, much annoyed at being made the rather vulnerable subject of Wilkinson's humor.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

It was no wonder that poor Pelgram fluttered about so compelling a flame, and Isabel, as she looked at her friend, thought for the thousandth time that if she were a man -- well, it was a little hard to say what she would do in that remote contingency, but she felt certain, at all events, that she would adore Helen.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

Pelgram went by with his arm familiarly passed through that of a phlegmatic-looking young Chinaman whom he led up to Miss Maitland's portrait.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble

Mentally the girl winced; the words went home so close to Pelgram, who had been in her own mind.

White Ashes Alden Charles Noble