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"David said you wouldn't," she announced in her clear up-country accent across the parasols and heads of huddled tourists, "but I told him a gentleman that's late to three meals aivry day like as not would forget boats can't be kept hot in the kitchen for you."
'Specially now they've found those deposits up the river were just as rich as they hoped, after all." "Whose? Mr. Mayrant's?" I asked with such sharpness that the bride was surprised. David hadn't attended to the name. It was some trust estate, he thought; Regent Tom, or some such thing. "And they thought it was no good," said the bride. "And it's aivry bit as good as the Coosaw used to be.
I knew that better than ever. And who was the other man in the launch? "Wasn't it perfectly elegant!" exclaimed the up-country bride. And upon my assenting, she made a further declaration to David: "It's just aivry bit as good as the Isle of Champagne."
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