Mary Roberts Rinehart

Name: The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII (1908)

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“The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII”, published in 1908, is a work by Mary Roberts Rinehart. It explores elements such as Halsey, Innes and Paul Armstrong.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII (1908)

“ There was something I did not hear, then Halsey again.
"We could go away," he was saying. "What does it matter about any one in the world but just the two of us? To be always together, like this, hand in hand; Louise—don't tell me it isn't going to be. I won't believe you."
"You don't know; you don't know," Louise repeated dully. "Halsey, I care—you know that—but—not enough to marry you."
"That is not true, Louise," he said sternly. "You can not look at me with your honest eyes and say that."
"I can not marry you," she repeated miserably. "It's bad enough, isn't it? Don't make it worse. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII (1908)

“ I was vaguely irritated with her; there are few young fellows like Halsey—straightforward, honest, and willing to sacrifice everything for the one woman. I knew one once, more than thirty years ago, who was like that: he died a long time ago. And sometimes I take out his picture, with its cane and its queer silk hat, and look at it. But of late years it has grown too painful: he is always a boy—and I am an old woman. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII (1908)

“ But she shook her head. "I must do it myself," she said dully. "My mother must have rented Sunnyside without telling my stepfather, and—Miss Innes, did you ever hear of any one being wretchedly poor in the midst of luxury?
"Did you ever long, and long, for money—money to use without question, money that no one would take you to task about? My mother and I have been surrounded for years with every indulgence everything that would make a display. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII (1908)

“ I thought she was going to break down, but she did not.
"You are not to think of anything but of getting well," I said, patting her hand. "When you are better, I am going to scold you for not coming here at once. This is your home, my dear, and of all people in the world, Halsey's old aunt ought to make you welcome."
She smiled a little, sadly, I thought.
"I ought not to see Halsey," she said. "Miss Innes, there are a great many things you will never understand, I am afraid. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII (1908)

“ But we have never had any money, Miss Innes; that must have been why mother rented this house. My stepfather pays out bills. It's the most maddening, humiliating existence in the world. I would love honest poverty better."
"Never mind," I said; "when you and Halsey are married you can be as honest as you like, and you will certainly be poor."
Halsey came to the door at that moment and I could hear him coaxing Liddy for admission to the sick room.
"Shall I bring him in?" I asked Louise, uncertain what to do. The girl seemed to shrink back among her pillows at the sound of his voice. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII (1908)

“ I glared at her, speechless, and closing the door into Louise's boudoir, to Liddy's great disappointment, I went on to the bedroom beyond.
Whatever Paul Armstrong had been, he had been lavish with his stepdaughter. Gertrude's rooms at home were always beautiful apartments, but the three rooms in the east wing at Sunnyside, set apart for the daughter of the house, were much more splendid. From the walls to the rugs on the floor, from the furniture to the appointments of the bath, with its pool sunk in the floor instead of the customary unlovely tub, everything was luxurious. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII (1908)

“ Some day, before long, you will be glad."
"Then it is because you have never loved me." There were depths of hurt pride in his voice. "You saw how much I loved you, and you let me think you cared—for a while. ”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase — Chapter XIII (1908)

“ The doctor smiled as he picked up the reins.
"Young ladies are changeable these days," he said. "We thought the wedding was to occur soon. Well, I will stop in this afternoon to see how my patient is getting along."
He drove away then, and I stood looking after him. He was a doctor of the old school, of the class of family practitioner that is fast dying out; a loyal and honorable gentleman who was at once physician and confidential adviser to his patients. When I was a girl we called in the doctor alike when we had measles, or when mother's sister died in the far West. ”

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