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Daley held out a hand, smiling. "Shake hands on it, Edwards. You may not believe it, but half of er doing a thing consists of making up your mind to it! Well, that's all, I think. Er you'd better look me up this evening and we'll settle about that French. Good-bye. Hope I haven't made you late for dinner."
He was uneasy. "That is true, Ada. I did have that fad, didn't I? Well, I forget the figures, but I see that you are still yourself, and as you should be." She shrugged her shoulders. "Take the big chair. It's the one you like best. "And tell me about yourself. I haven't seen you for three months and over. Haven't you been out of town. Couldn't you have written me a note."
The girl started. "Laura!" she exclaimed. "Why, I haven't seen her for months only once since she went to Denver and fell in love with a newspaper man. Wasn't that perfectly crazy? I was always afraid she would do something of the sort. There is a sentimental streak in her, you know. I did all I could to dissuade her, but it was no use.
"Doesn't one proverbially say 'Boo! to a goose?" she remarked demurely. "If one has the courage. Now, I haven't. I'm shy." "Shy! You?" Again the delicious trill of her mirth rang in his ears. "I should imagine that to be the least of your troubles." "No! Truly." There was real and anxious earnestness in his assurance. "It's because I don't see you.
I haven't told you all I have given up so that I might be a good woman; it is not easy to make the sacrifices I have made, but I am happier now that I have made them. Ulick Ulick must not come here while I'm here, but you'll want to see him I had better go. Father, dear, it is hard to say all these things. I've done nothing but bring you trouble. Now I've robbed you of your friend.
Good God! Haven't you seen enough of murder in the past four years? I could readily fancy you going in for some sort of revenge but I should have expected something more original " "Murder's natural enough when you've seen nothing else as long as I have. And as for human life how much value do you suppose I place on it after four years of war?
Trot thought this over quite seriously for a time. Then one of her quaint ideas came to her so quaint that it was entirely sensible. "I'm the Queen of the Pinkies just now, am I not?" she asked. "Of course," answered Rosalie. "None can dispute that." "Then I've the right to make new laws, haven't I?" "I believe so."
At the top of the left-hand page she wrote the word Bad. "'Good' means where the law is on our side," she explained; "and 'Bad' means where the law is against us. We will have 'Good' and 'Bad' opposite each other, all down the two pages; and when we get to the bottom, we'll add them up, and act accordingly. They say girls have no heads for business. Haven't they!
"Why, are you prepared to head him off in that direction? By Jove! I'm right glad to know it. Well, I'll be around to the Waldorf in the course of a day or two No, much obliged, but I don't care to go into the club-rooms to-night; in fact, I haven't been in there since the governor made that after-dinner speech of his. Good-night!"
I'm glad I haven't had that much. One of the nice things about Miss Priscilla and the Colonel is that they go off and sit by themselves and entirely forget to ever say go home, until we have all had our fill of fun; then they begin to hurry at a terrible rate that gets up a pleasant excitement. They seem to know just the minute when we might begin to get tired, and they never let it come.
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