Indeed, I don't believe he has cheek enough to carry it off
so, if he were not sure of his position."
"Oh, as to cheek," retorted the Secretary, venomously, "Arthur Fenton
has enough of that for anything. And, as for that matter, almost any
man will fight when he is cornered."
In the end the Secretary prevailed, and the committee, albeit somewhat
doubtingly, passed a vote of censure upon Fenton. The Secretary was
directed to communicate this fact to the artist, and he took it upon
himself also to include the information in the printed notices of the
monthly meeting which were sent out a few days later, an innovation
which stirred the club to its very depths and became town talk within
twenty-four hours.
XXII
HIS PURE HEART'S TRUTH.
Two Gentlemen of Verona; iv.--2.
Helen Greyson was at work in her studio modelling the hand of a statue.
The pretty hand of Melissa Blake lay before her, so near that Milly's
face came close to her own as she sat beside the modelling stand. It
was one of those anomalies of which nature is fond the world over, and
in which she displays nowhere more whimsical wilfulness than in New
England, that Melissa, born of a race of plain country farmers, should
have the hand of a princess. It was slender and beautiful, with
exquisite taper fingers which had not as yet been spoiled by hard work,
although were the present generation of New England maidens called upon
to labor as vigorously as did their grandmothers the girl's hands would
hardly have retained their comeliness so long.
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