`` I understand why you have made such a success of the law , '' said Esme , `` but -- '' `` There are no buts . Come with me , Esme . I 'm going to hunt up your mother and mine and talk to them . '' Half an hour later an astonishing whisper went circulating among the guests . Before they could grasp its significance Tom St. Clair and Jen 's husband , broadly smiling , were hustling scattered folk into the parlour again and making clear a passage in the hall . The minister came in with his blue book , and then Selwyn Grant and Esme Graham walked in hand in hand . When the second ceremony was over , Mr. Grant shook his son 's hand vigorously . `` There 's no need to wish you happiness , son ; you 've got it . And you 've made one fuss and bother do for both weddings , that 's what I call genius . And '' -- this in a careful whisper , while Esme was temporarily obliterated in Mrs. Grant 's capacious embrace -- `` she 's got the right sort of a nose . But your mother is a grand woman , son , a grand woman . '' At the Bay Shore Farm The Newburys were agog with excitement over the Governor 's picnic . As they talked it over on the verandah at sunset , they felt that life could not be worth living to those unfortunate people who had not been invited to it . Not that there were many of the latter in Claymont , for it was the Governor 's native village , and the Claymonters were getting up the picnic for him during his political visit to the city fifteen miles away . Each of the Newburys had a special reason for wishing to attend the Governor 's picnic . Ralph and Elliott wanted to see the Governor himself . He was a pet hero of theirs . Had he not once been a Claymont lad just like themselves ? Had he not risen to the highest office in the state by dint of sheer hard work and persistency ? Had he not won a national reputation by his prompt and decisive measures during the big strike at Campden ?
And was he not a man , personally and politically , whom any boy might be proud XXXXX imitate ?
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