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Updated: May 13, 2025
"But how does M. Hardy find any advantage in the good he does for you?" "I will explain that presently, mademoiselle." "Oh, what a nice, sweet smell of fruit!" said Angela, suddenly. "Our common fruit-store is close at hand. I wager we shall find there some of the little birds from the dormitory not occupied in picking and stealing, but hard at work."
This last information was indeed surprising, for, inasmuch as Nahum Baker was a man who had an apology for a fruit-store near the wharves, it lent an air of realism to the plan, this having a grown man connected with them in the enterprise.
Their first visit was to a fruit-store kept by a Chinaman; and most of the shops in the place were in the hands of the Celestials. Bananas and oranges were the principal, though there were also nearly all the tropical fruits in season. Many of the party purchased useful articles in other places.
Well, no girl can say I ever went and set down by her smellin' like a bunghole on a hot day. I don't travel that road. I'll go over there smellin' like a fruit-store, and I'll put that box in her hand and tell her to chaw till she goes to sleep, an then I'll pull her head over on my shoulder and pat them bangs. Hursh, oh, hursh!"
But love can climb every steep place, and prudence is not its grand-vizier. Going by a fruit-store in the afternoon he saw some fine strawberries, the first in from the South. He bought a basket, decorated it with German ivy obtained at a flower-stand, and spirited it upstairs to his room as if it were the most dangerous of contraband. In a disguised hand he wrote on a card, "For Miss Ludolph."
"But how does M. Hardy find any advantage in the good he does for you?" "I will explain that presently, mademoiselle." "Oh, what a nice, sweet smell of fruit!" said Angela, suddenly. "Our common fruit-store is close at hand. I wager we shall find there some of the little birds from the dormitory not occupied in picking and stealing, but hard at work."
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