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He
paused
and
put
a
big
,
brown
,
horny
hand
on
Aileen
's
arm
.
She
had
listened
to
his
plea
not
unmoved
--
really
more
or
less
softened
--
because
of
the
hopelessness
of
it
.
She
could
not
give
up
Cowperwood
.
Her
father
just
did
not
understand
.
He
did
not
know
what
love
was
.
Unquestionably
he
had
never
loved
as
she
had
.
She
stood
quite
silent
while
Butler
appealed
to
her
.
"
I
'd
like
to
,
father
,
"
she
said
at
last
and
softly
,
tenderly
.
"
Really
I
would
.
I
do
love
you
.
Yes
,
I
do
.
I
want
to
please
you
;
but
I
ca
n't
in
this
--
I
ca
n't
!
I
love
Frank
Cowperwood
.
You
do
n't
understand
--
really
you
do
n't
!
"
At
the
repetition
of
Cowperwood
's
name
Butler
's
mouth
hardened
.
He
could
see
that
she
was
infatuated
--
that
his
carefully
calculated
plea
had
failed
.
So
he
must
think
of
some
other
way
"
Very
well
,
then
,
"
he
said
at
last
and
sadly
,
oh
,
so
sadly
,
as
Aileen
turned
away
.
"
Have
it
yer
own
way
,
if
ye
will
.
Ye
must
go
,
though
,
willy-nilly
.
It
ca
n't
be
any
other
way
.
I
wish
to
God
it
could
.
"
Aileen
went
out
,
very
solemn
,
and
Butler
went
over
to
his
desk
and
sat
down
.
"
Such
a
situation
!
"
he
said
to
himself
.
Such
a
complication
!
"
The
situation
which
confronted
Aileen
was
really
a
trying
one
.
A
girl
of
less
innate
courage
and
determination
would
have
weakened
and
yielded
.
For
in
spite
of
her
various
social
connections
and
acquaintances
,
the
people
to
whom
Aileen
could
run
in
an
emergency
of
the
present
kind
were
not
numerous
.
She
could
scarcely
think
of
any
one
who
would
be
likely
to
take
her
in
for
any
lengthy
period
,
without
question
.
There
were
a
number
of
young
women
of
her
own
age
,
married
and
unmarried
,
who
were
very
friendly
to
her
,
but
there
were
few
with
whom
she
was
really
intimate
.
The
only
person
who
stood
out
in
her
mind
,
as
having
any
real
possibility
of
refuge
for
a
period
,
was
a
certain
Mary
Calligan
,
better
known
as
"
Mamie
"
among
her
friends
,
who
had
attended
school
with
Aileen
in
former
years
and
was
now
a
teacher
in
one
of
the
local
schools
.
The
Calligan
family
consisted
of
Mrs.
Katharine
Calligan
,
the
mother
,
a
dressmaker
by
profession
and
a
widow
--
her
husband
,
a
house-mover
by
trade
,
having
been
killed
by
a
falling
wall
some
ten
years
before
--
and
Mamie
,
her
twenty-three-year-old
daughter
.
They
lived
in
a
small
two-story
brick
house
in
Cherry
Street
,
near
Fifteenth
.
Mrs.
Calligan
was
not
a
very
good
dressmaker
,
not
good
enough
,
at
least
,
for
the
Butler
family
to
patronize
in
their
present
exalted
state
.
Aileen
went
there
occasionally
for
gingham
house-dresses
,
underwear
,
pretty
dressing-gowns
,
and
alterations
on
some
of
her
more
important
clothing
which
was
made
by
a
very
superior
modiste
in
Chestnut
Street
.
She
visited
the
house
largely
because
she
had
gone
to
school
with
Mamie
at
St.
Agatha
's
,
when
the
outlook
of
the
Calligan
family
was
much
more
promising
.
Mamie
was
earning
forty
dollars
a
month
as
the
teacher
of
a
sixth-grade
room
in
one
of
the
nearby
public
schools
,
and
Mrs.
Calligan
averaged
on
the
whole
about
two
dollars
a
day
--
sometimes
not
so
much
.
The
house
they
occupied
was
their
own
,
free
and
clear
,
and
the
furniture
which
it
contained
suggested
the
size
of
their
joint
income
,
which
was
somewhere
near
eighty
dollars
a
month
.
Mamie
Calligan
was
not
good-looking
,
not
nearly
as
good-looking
as
her
mother
had
been
before
her
.
Mrs.
Calligan
was
still
plump
,
bright
,
and
cheerful
at
fifty
,
with
a
fund
of
good
humor
.
Mamie
was
somewhat
duller
mentally
and
emotionally
.
She
was
serious-minded
--
made
so
,
perhaps
,
as
much
by
circumstances
as
by
anything
else
,
for
she
was
not
at
all
vivid
,
and
had
little
sex
magnetism
.
Yet
she
was
kindly
,
honest
,
earnest
,
a
good
Catholic
,
and
possessed
of
that
strangely
excessive
ingrowing
virtue
which
shuts
so
many
people
off
from
the
world
--
a
sense
of
duty
.
To
Mamie
Calligan
duty
(
a
routine
conformity
to
such
theories
and
precepts
as
she
had
heard
and
worked
by
since
her
childhood
)
was
the
all-important
thing
,
her
principal
source
of
comfort
and
relief
;
her
props
in
a
queer
and
uncertain
world
being
her
duty
to
her
Church
;
her
duty
to
her
school
;
her
duty
to
her
mother
;
her
duty
to
her
friends
,
etc.
.
