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Before very long we shall train an army of menservants, and send the women to the devil. 'Queer thing, Rolfe, put in his friend, with a laugh; 'I've noticed it of late, you're getting to be a regular woman-hater. 'Not a bit of it. I hate a dirty, lying, incapable creature, that's all, whether man or woman. No doubt they're more common in petticoats. 'Been to the Frothinghams' lately? 'No.
His sole ambition in life is to become politely pickled and fall asleep draped over a gold chair in the drawing room when there's high-class company present. For that reason the Frothinghams on state occasions put the skids under Uncle Heck and run him off stage till after the final curtain.
Anyway, it's wonderful " It was all wonderful, everybody beamed over it. Josephine already wore her ring, but no announcement was to be made until after a trip she would make with the Frothinghams to Yellowstone Park in September. Then the gallant and fortunate and handsome Stewart would come to California, and the wedding would be in October.
He lived through a week of the wretchedest indecision, and at the end of it, when Wednesday afternoon came round, was again climbing the many stairs to the Frothinghams' flat; even more nervous than last time, much more ashamed of himself, and utterly doubtful as to his reception. The maid admitted him without remark, and showed him into an empty room.
He was invited to go with them to hear the boys' motet at the Thomaskirche; and with this intercourse began the change in their relations from mere acquaintance to something like friendship. Through the following spring Rolfe was a familiar figure at the Frothinghams'; but this form of pleasure soon wearied him, and he was glad to escape from London in June.
The Frothinghams are nice people and old friends and they have more money than some people have hay, but that doesn't give them a license to spoil one of my perfectly good evenings by sprinkling a lot of canned music and fricasseed recitations all over it. The Frothinghams have a skeleton in their closet. Its name is Uncle Heck and he weighs 237 not bad for a skeleton. Uncle Heck is a Joe Morgan.
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