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"It's I, Gwendolin," he says, meekly. "Oh, it is! You've condescended to take some notice of me at last. Well, I'm glad to see you. Come up stairs at once, and confess that you've treated me abominably, you bad man."
"Then make a clean breast. I give you permission to speak of my affairs, only " "What?" "Somehow I'd rather not have Lady Ruth know about Pauline Potter, and the foolish whim that causes her to pursue me." At this Philander chuckles, being able to see through a millstone with a hole in it. "I'll warn Gwendolin, then.
"Ethelbert is in love with Gwendolin, but he is not certain that his Love is reciprocated. So he sends her the Flowers. The waiting-maid brings them into the Bower where Lady Gwendolin is seated and with them a Scroll of Verses from Ethelbert.
I soon began, also, to purchase and trade "Beadle's Dime Novels" and, to tell the truth, I took an exquisite delight in Old Sleuth and Jack Harkaway. My taste was catholic. I ranged from Lady Gwendolin to Buckskin Bill and so far as I can now distinguish one was quite as enthralling as the other.
Hugh has finished college and has a position in the Forestry Department. I had a note from him this morning." "And didn't tell! Oh, Ruth!" teased Grace Carter. "But, Bab, what about our Lenox friends, who spend their winters in Washington?" "You mean Dorothy and Gwendolin Morton, the British Ambassador's daughters, and funny little Franz Haller, the German secretary, I hope we shall see them.
I know what I know, and a dused sight more than some people think, especially my beloved wife, Gwendolin." "What do you know come to the point?" "First, all about your past, and the trouble in the Craig family." "Confusion! and you never told me you had ever heard of me before? This explains the manner in which you seemed to study me at times on the steamer," reproachfully. "Just so.
I had reasons for my silence; she was one of them," jerking his thumb over his shoulder in the direction of the parlor above, whence the voice of the amiable Gwendolin Makepeace floats to their ears. "In haste, then, let me tell you a secret, John. I was not always what you see me, a docile, hen-pecked man.
"It is called 'The Language of Flowers. There are three Characters in the Play a young Shepherd named Ethelbert, the Lady Gwendolin and a Waiting Maid." "We couldn't carry three People," said the Artist. "You'd better use a Dummy instead of the Hired Girl. I do an awful funny Wrassle with a Dummy. Go ahead and slip me the Plot." "It is an idyllic Thing," said the Author.
There is another female, whom the young lady calls Aunt Gwen, and as a specimen of a man-female she certainly takes the premium, being tall, angular, yet muscular, and with a face that is rather Napoleonic in its cast. A born diplomat, and never so happy as when engaged in a broil or a scene of some sort, they have given this Yankee aunt of Lady Ruth the name of Gwendolin Makepeace.
She wished to examine the guests at her leisure. Mollie and Ruth were deep in conversation with Mrs. Post and Hugh. Grace was talking to Dorothy and Gwendolin Morton. Barbara's eyes wandered eagerly over the throng of people. Suddenly some one touched her on the shoulder. "You do not remember me, do you?" Bab turned and saw a young woman. "I am Marjorie Moore," said the newcomer.
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