He talked the matter over with his wife.
"Quincy," said she, "I would go, if I were you."
"Are you not happy here?"
"Yes, and no. Happy to be near my son, and relatives and friends; no,
because your business takes you away so much that I see little of
you. If you take the mission, I shall have you with me all the time.
I am selfish, I know, but it is my love for you that makes me so."
The Hon. Quincy Adams Sawyer was nominated and confirmed as
Ambassador to Austria-Hungary. Alice had made the selection.
"Let us go to Vienna, Quincy. It was there we met after our long
separation--and, this is purely a personal matter, I wish to study
the scenes of my story, 'The Son of Sergius,' at close range."
Before Quincy's departure it had been decided to lease the Beacon
Street house for four years. Maude was given her choice but preferred
the house in Mount Vernon Street where she had lived since her
marriage.
Young Quincy was obliged to take bachelor quarters which he found at
Norumbega Chambers.
His suite consisted of a sitting-room, two sleeping rooms each with
bath, and a small room intended for a library or study, and which was
utilized by him as an office.
Quincy went down the harbour with his father and mother on the ocean
liner, returning on the tug with Tom. On the way back young Quincy
took a small envelope from his pocket and extracted a short note
which he had read at least a dozen times since its receipt.
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