The Coming of Bill

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Porter had used all her influence with Ruth to make her reject Basil.

It was her success that first showed her how great that influence was.

She had come now to look on Ruth's destiny as something for which she

was personally responsible, a fact which was noted and resented by

others, in particular Ruth's brother Bailey, who regarded his aunt with

a dislike and suspicion akin to that which a stray dog feels towards

the boy who saunters towards him with a tin can in his hand.

To Bailey, his strong-minded relative was a perpetual menace, a sort of

perambulating yellow peril, and the fact that she often alluded to him

as a worm consolidated his distaste for her.

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Mrs. Porter released the clutch and set out on her drive. She rarely

had a settled route for these outings of hers, preferring to zigzag

about New York, livening up the great city at random. She always drove