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Updated: May 24, 2025
"Gladys," says he, "this is Valentina Tozier, that I've told you so much about. Valentina, I want you to know Miss Prentice." "Ah!" says Gladys, a bit choky and archin' her eyebrows sarcastic. "I I recall the name." You'd 'most thought Valentina would have been fussed to flinders about then; but, beyond actin' a little dazed, she don't show it.
"Why should she?" "Well, he is so little, for one thing, and she is so tall. And then Sibyl thinks a great deal of social position." "He is a Winslow," said Lorania, archin her neck unconsciously "a lineal descendant from Kenelm Winslow, who came over in the May " "But his mother " "I don't know anything about his mother before she came here.
I s'pose we owes Mister Wilkins about 'five hundred dollars, don't we, Doc? "'Tain't so much, says Doc, who's guileful that a-way. As he sees the little Sue girl archin' for another buck, he pulls out a paper an' makes a bluff. 'Yere it is, four hundred an' ninety-three dollars an' seventy-four cents. I puts it down all accurate, 'cause I don't allow no sharp to come 'round an' beat me none.
And there are gorgeous flower beds and lawns green as emerald, and windin' walks lined with statuary, and rare vases runnin' over with blossoms and foliage, and a long, cool harbor, fenced in with posies where white swans sail, archin' up their proud necks as if lookin' down on common ducks and geese.
Seems that Doris didn't really belong, for all her airs. Her folks had only lived up in the West 70's for four or five years, and before that "Well, you know," says Vee, archin' her eyebrows expressive, "on the East Side somewhere."
But as for the coffin, I'll give you me word if it didn't take and set off wid itself floatin' away bobbin' along atop of the wather as light now, as if it was a lafe dhropped down from the boughs archin' over our heads and wasn't that cur'ous enough?
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