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It was a period of great stress for Lilly, of happy shopping and the sweet anxieties of ribbon and frock, and there were always two high circles of color out on her cheeks, and from time to time she would force herself to sit down, uncurl her fingers of their tensity, as Ida Blair had taught her, and thus, starting in at the hands, try to relax.
At nine o'clock the lights went out just as Lilly had slid into her own gown. She tiptoed to the door, barefooted, locking it and thereby violating a rule of the institution. There must have been a moon somewhere behind housetops, because through the three shadeless windows a sort of gleam whitely powdered the silence.
For a time Lilly sat quite intently, her gaze on a small sign that hung at right angles from an open doorway, "MATRON." After a while she gathered up her luggage and walked over, entering a little room fitted up with the efficient and institutional unprivacy of public service.
Now, I just want to tell you what I saw at one of these same Cotillons in the first part of the season. Lilly Stannard disappeared after supper and people said she was sick and was going home, but I knew exactly what was the matter, because I had seen her at the supper table.
In the year 1649 Lilly received a pension of one hundred pounds per annum from the council of state, which, after having been paid him for two years, he declined to accept any longer. In 1659 he received a present of a gold chain and medal from Charles X king of Sweden, in acknowledgment of the respectful mention he had made of that monarch in his almanacs.
Busy at the mannerism, if not the act, of twirling that hirsute adornment of upper lip, he continued to observe Lilly. "You understand? What I need is a real heart-to-heart voice." "I'm quite good at ballads." "Quite good or darn good?" "Darn." "Experience?" "I'm just in from as far west as Dallas." "Now what I want is a turn that hasn't struck the West yet. Understand?
"Mother always puts my friends in here," she remarked: "she says it's plenty good enough for school-girls to thrash about in!" "What does she mean?" cried Clover, indignantly, as Lilly closed the door. "We don't thrash!" "I can't imagine," answered Katy, who was vexed too. But pretty soon she began to laugh. "People are so funny!" she said. "Never mind, Clovy, this room is good enough, I'm sure."
I was taking my third lesson, and I had printed, "I Amm 5w writjng This, 5wjth my own lilly w?ite handS," when I heard the Kid saying: "You can beat the game this way. Let John buy you a ticket to the Piræus. If you go from one Greek port to another you don't need a visé. But, if you book from here to Italy, you must get a permit from the Italian consul, and our consul, and the police.
Jenny, Lilly, Carry, Hetty, Fanny, and the rest of you, dearly beloved and longed for, Mary, my queen my singing-bird, a royal captive, but she shall come to her crown one day, my two Ellens, graceful and brilliant, and you, my sweet-mouthed, soft-eyed islander, with your life deep and boundless like the sea that lulled you to baby-slumbers, knowing you, shall I talk of regard?
We were neither of us seasick, and we enjoyed every moment of the voyage across the Gulf. Mrs. Long seemed glad to have us, and was interested in our incessant talk. Lilly of course gave her the whole story of the Frenchman's buttons, and brought them out for her inspection. She said they would make lovely earrings, and that she must attend to that the first thing on reaching New Orleans.
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