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It was an early morning hour, when it was easy to believe in the perfect fitness of Little Arcady's name; an hour in a time when the Potts-troubled waters had been mercifully stilled by the hand of God; an hour when the spirit of each Little Arcadian might share to its own fulness in the large serenity of the ageless world-soul. I recalled Mrs.
He looked up and down the quiet street interestedly, then crossed over to Hermann Hoffmuller's, another establishment in which our civilization was especially menaced. He was followed cordially by five of Little Arcady's lesser citizens, who had obviously sustained the relation of guests to him at Skeyhan's.
The day she came was one of Little Arcady's best; quite all that her anxious servitor could have wished, a day of summer's first abundance, when our green-bordered streets basked in a tempered sunlight, and our trim white cottages nestled coolly back of their flower gardens.
But Solon Denney's spirit, to the best of Little Arcady's belief, soared aloft to realms of pure sunlight. My knowledge of subsequent events that day was gained partly by word of mouth and partly by observations which I was permitted to make. To the hotel Solon conducted his charges, handing them from the 'bus with a flourish that seemed to confer upon them the freedom of the city.
Little Arcady's opinion, which she knew to tally with his, had always come to her more circuitously. The strange gentleman then asked Miss Caroline, not too urbanely, if she had expected him to come all the way from New York to look at such cheap stuff.
Aurelia Potts was a leaven of yeast that fermented its social waters, erstwhile calm, not to say stagnant. Early in November an evening affair was held in her honor at the Eubanks home. The Eubankses being our leading Presbyterians, and Mrs. Potts having allied herself with that church, it was felt that they were best fitted to give the lady her initial impression of Little Arcady's society.
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