Poor woman! The path she selected to walk in through
the world has proved rough and thorny, I fear, beyond any thing
dreamed of in her young imagination."
CHAPTER XXI.
Weeks passed after this second visit to the Allen House, but the
call was not returned by Mrs. Dewey. We talked the matter over,
occasionally, and concluded that, for some reason best known to
herself, the friendly overtures of Constance were not agreeable to
the lady. She was not often seen abroad, and when she did appear,
the closed windows of her carriage usually hid her face from careful
observation.
Of late, Mr. Dewey was away from S----more than usual, business
connected with the firm of which he was a member requiring his
frequent presence in New York. He did not remain absent over two or
three days at a time.
Nearly opposite to where I resided lived Mr. Joshua Kling, the
Cashier of the new Clinton Bank. He and Mr. Dewey seemed to be on
particularly friendly terms. Often I noticed the visits of Mr. Dewey
to the Cashier's house after bank hours, and many times in paying
evening calls would I meet the two gentlemen, arm in arm, engaged in
close conversation.
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