Capitolo 85
suddenly on the intruder.
"Because--the good afternoon!" Barton sneered above of the eccentrically great
and languid group of orchids color lavender and pale that he has grabbed in his
hand.
"Good afternoon!" Edgarton said without enthusiasm.
"Er--the orchids!" Barton still persisted the grinningly. Through the
hostile curved of the shoulder of the oldest man him taken a worrying
a girl's look improperly speculative eyes. In sudden impulsive
unites in league with her against this, theirs apparent common enemy Grows old, him
you thrust the orchids in the hands surprised of the oldest man.
"For me?" Edgarton icily questioned.
"Because, yes--certainly!" Removed Barton. "Orchids, you know! Greenhouse
orchids!" he carefully explained.
"Then me--he/she judged", admitted Edgarton. With extreme disgust he started to
you untie the ribbon of fragile and soft lavender that has included them. "In them
is native, you know", he confided, "one very rarely find them
growing with--looms on them." From his/her nest of pillows through the
you lodge the small Eve that Edgarton has suddenly appeared in distance on in prominence defined.
"What it brought me, the Mr. Barton?" she asked.
"Because, Eve!" weeping his/her father. "Because, Eve, you surprise me! Because, I am
caught to you! Because--thing intends?"
The girl lowered again in his/her pillows. "Oh, Son-in-laws", her the faltered,
"doesn't he/she know--anything? That had been as soon as 'the chatters.'"
With hasty courtesy Edgarton turned him to young Barton. "You pray both
sat", he said; "takes--takes a chair."
It was the more chair next to the small Eve Edgarton that Barton has taken.
"How ago, Miss Edgarton?" he risked him.
"As ago, the Mr. Barton?" said Edgarton the small Eve.
From the muddy wash-stand they felt in some place over them, Edgarton
shaking himself/herself/itself with the orchids and mumbling Latin and vague curses--or
affections--on them. A trifle covertly Barton smiled to Eve.
A trifle covertly Eve smiled again at Barton.
In this perfectly agreeable change of smiles which the girl has reached on