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Howard's own particular part of this house included a library with a small
study next to it. In the study was a most attractive table with plenty of
room to spread about books and papers, a huge divan in the corner and a
fire-place near by. He found himself doing more and more of his work at
home. There were not so many interruptions as at the office, the beauty of
the surroundings, the consciousness that "she" was not far away--all
combined to keep him at home and to enable him to do more and better work
there.
He was justly and greatly proud of her achievement; and where he used to be
more regretful than he admitted even to himself when they had guests, he
was now glad to see others about, admiring her taste, appreciating her
skill as a hostess and giving him opportunities to look at her from an ever
new point of view.
Of course these guests were almost all "_their_ kind of
people"--amiable, well mannered persons who thought and acted in that most
conventional of moulds, the mould of "good society." They fitted into the
surroundings, they did their part toward making those surroundings
luxurious--a "wallow of self-complacent content." And this environment soon
suited and fitted him exactly.
But to her he was still The Democrat.
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