"
"Very well, Stanton; but it must not happen so another week;" and
then the young men who had withdrawn into the hall-way entered,
but the expression of coldness and displeasure did not wholly pass
from their faces.
Chapter XXIII. Jennie Burton's "Remedies."
Fortunately Mr. Mayhew had been placed at the supper-table next
to Miss Burton, and Van Berg speedily became absorbed in watching
the impression made on each other by these two characters that were
so utterly diverse. It needed but a glance to see that Mr. Mayhew
was a heavy-hearted, broken-spirited man. His shrunken inanimate
features, and slight, bent form, looked all the more dim and shadowy
in contrast with his stout, florid wife, who even in public scarcely
more than tolerated his presence. This evening she devoted herself
to Sibley, who sat between her and her daughter.
Mr. Mayhew seemed unusually depressed even for him, and began to
make a supper only in form. Jennie Burton stole a few shy glances
at his sallow face, and seemed to find an attraction in it she could
not resist. Two handsome lovers sat near her, but she evidently
forgot them wholly save when they addressed her; and she wooed the
elderly man at her side with consummate tact and grace.
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