midday
Though flung carelessly into a paragraph printed in small type , it seemed to blaze in fire on the page ! It was as if all America must rise at it . As she looked from the window it was with something like surprise that she saw the stream of traffic roaring onward , heedless of the fact that this dread name was being hawked in the streets and sold at the news-stands . She sent out for the evening papers that appear at midday , being relieved and astonished to find that as yet it had created no sensation . She was not deceived by his ease of manner when he appeared at the apartment in the afternoon . Though he carried his head loftily , and smiled with his habitual air of confidence , she could see that the deep waters of the proud had gone over his soul . Their ebb had streaked his hair and beard with white , and deepened the wrinkles that meant concentrated will into the furrows that come of suffering .