The arrangement suited him very well, for at least Hollis' ride with Miss Stevens would not be a tete-a-tete.

Miss Westlake strove to let him understand as plainly as she could that she was only going with Mr.Tilloughby because of her previous semi-engagement with him--and there seemed a coolness between Miss Westlake and Miss Hastings as they separated.

Miss Hastings did her best on the way back to console Mr.
Turner for the absence of Miss Westlake.

Vivacious as she always was, she never was more so than now, and before Sam knew it he had engaged himself with her to gather ferns in the afternoon.
Upon his arrival at Meadow Brook, he found his express package and also a couple of important letters awaiting him, and immediately held on the porch a full meeting of the tentative Marsh Pulp Company.

In that meeting he decided on four things: first, that these hard-headed men of business were highly favorable to his scheme; second, that Princeman and Cuthbert, who knew most about paper and pulp, were so profoundly impressed with his samples that they tried to conceal it from him; third, that Princeman, at first his warmest adherent, was now most stubbornly opposed to him, not that he wished to prevent forming the company, but that he wished to prevent Sam's having his own way; fourth, that the crowd had talked it over and had firmly determined that Sam should not control their money.