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Updated: May 26, 2025
The trip on the Sorceress was given up, and a note of withdrawal despatched to Van Degen; but at the same time Ralph cabled his sister to ask if she could increase her loan. For he had conquered only at the cost of a concession: Undine was to stay in Paris till October, and they were to sail on a fast steamer, in a deck-suite, like the Harvey Shallums.
In the seventies, ladies cheerfully shared their state-rooms with women they did not know, and often became friends in consequence; but now, unless a certain deck-suite can be secured, with bath and sitting-room, on one or two particular "steamers," the great lady is in despair. Yet our mothers were quite as refined as the present generation, only they took life simply, as they found it.
She wanted to get the voyage over as quickly and luxuriously as possible Bertha Shallum had told her that in a "deck-suite" no one need be sea-sick but she wanted still more to have another week or two of Paris; and it was always hard to make her see why circumstances could not be bent to her wishes. "This week? But how on earth can I be ready?
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