Mrs. Stark stiffened her chin. Her own hair was very straight. "I don't know," said she, "that the
Starks have had any straighter hair than other people. If Amelia does not have anything worse to
contend with than straight hair, I rather think she will get along in the world as well as most people."
It was February off the Banks, and so thick was the weath-er that, on the upper decks, one could
have driven a sleigh. Inside the smoking-room Austin Ford, as securely sheltered from the blizzard
as though he had been sitting in front of a wood fire at his club, ordered hot gin for himself and the
ship's doctor. The ship's doctor had gone below on another "hurry call" from the widow.
Poor Sally Patterson unpacked little Content's trunks. She had sent the little girl to school within a
few days after her arrival. Lily Jennings and Amelia Wheeler called for her, and aided her down the
street between them, arms interlocked. Content, although Sally had done her best with a pretty
ready-made dress and a new hat, was undeniably a peculiar-looking child. In the first place, she had
an expression so old that it was fairly remarkable.
Then Christopher rose. Myrtle's anxious face lightened. But to her wonder her husband went into
the front entry and got his best hat. "He isn't going to wear his best hat to plow," thought Myrtle.
For an awful moment it occurred to her that something had suddenly gone wrong with her husband's
mind. Christopher brushed the hat carefully, adjusted it at the little looking-glass in the kitchen, and
went out.
If he could have known it, it would have increased his perplexity and uneasiness, although it would
not have disturbed his loyalty in the least. He came twice a week to see Louisa Ellis, and every time,
sitting there in her delicately sweet room, he felt as if surrounded by a hedge of lace. He was afraid
to clumsy foot or hand through the stir lest he should put a fairy web, and he had always the
consciousness that Louisa was watching fearfully lest he should.
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