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For the moment he could not see her robbed of her pretty environment and tramping through undiscovered countries at his side. So the Picture's reply, when it came, was strictly in keeping with several remarks which Miss Delamar herself had made to him in the past. "Yes," said the Picture, politely, "and where is Abyssinia in India, isn't it?"
Stuart loved his work better than he knew, but how well he loved Miss Delamar neither he nor his friends could tell. She was the most beautiful and lovely creature that he had ever seen, and of that only was he certain. Stuart was sitting in the club one day when the conversation turned to matrimony.
I was showing once with a pair of glass-eating sisters, the Twins Delamar, as fine a pair of girls as ever " "Sure, the Delamars I know 'em." "Remember the specialty they carried, stepping on a piece of plate glass and feeding each other with the grounds " "Sure." "Well, I sat up for three weeks running, with one of them girls the red-haired one, till she died off of sorosis of the liver "
Consequently, when she sent one of her largest and most aggravatingly beautiful photographs to young Stuart, it was no sign that she cared especially for him. How much young Stuart cared for Miss Delamar, however, was an open question, and a condition yet to be discovered.
To go out of one's way to talk of other things when every one, even Miss Delamar herself, knew what must be uppermost in your mind, always seemed as absurd as to strain a point in politeness, and to pretend not to notice that a guest had upset his claret, or any other embarrassing fact.
Consequently, when she sent one of her largest and most aggravatingly beautiful photographs to young Stuart, it was no sign that she cared especially for him. How much young Stuart cared for Miss Delamar, however, was an open question and a condition yet to be discovered.
The photograph was a very large one, and the likeness to the original so admirable that the face seemed to smile and radiate with all the loveliness and beauty of Miss Delamar herself. Stuart beamed upon it with genuine surprise and pleasure, and exclaimed delightedly to himself.
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