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"It's just a spectacular show," said he; "no plot or anything of that sort, you know, but good music and dancing; and when we get tired of it we can go. We'll have a little supper at Auriccio's afterward, if you'll be so kind. It's only a step from McVicker's." "Won't it be pretty late?" she queried. "Not for Chicago," said he, "and you'll find material for a picture at Auriccio's about midnight.
"There is a good play running at McVicker's Theatre. We will go there." "Anywhere will suit me, Mr. Carter." "Young people are easily satisfied," he said. "When they get older they get more fastidious. However, there is generally something attractive at McVicker's." It so happened that Philip and his employer took a late dinner, and did not reach the theater till ten minutes after the hour.
Cressler as auxiliary into his campaign, and a series of rencontres followed one another with astonishing rapidity. Now it was another opera party, now a box at McVicker's, now a dinner, or more often a drive through Lincoln Park behind Jadwin's trotters.
On this particular occasion Hurstwood wished to leave early. "I guess I'll be going down town," he remarked, rising. "Are we going to McVicker's Monday?" questioned Mrs. Hurstwood, without rising. "Yes," he said indifferently. They went on dining, while he went upstairs for his hat and coat. Presently the door clicked. "I guess papa's gone," said Jessica.
And I sank to sleep and to dreams, in which Jimmie Elkins, the Empress, Sir John, Alice, and myself acted in a spectacular drama, like that at McVicker's. And yet there are those who say there is nothing in dreams! Reminiscentially Autobiographical. This Jimmie Elkins was several years older than I; but that did not prevent us, as boys, from being fast friends.
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