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Updated: May 13, 2025
We made allowance, of course, for the fact that things were new, and we said we were glad there would be enough heat in cold weather, anyway, by which you will see how really innocent we were in those days. It grew cold in earnest by November first. And then, all at once, the gold-painted radiators, as if they had shown what they could do and were satisfied, seemed to lose enthusiasm.
The silk tents, which had not come, had to be made in Fairbanks; the ice-axes sent were ridiculous gold-painted toys with detachable heads and broomstick handles more like dwarf halberds than ice-axes; and at least two workmanlike axes were indispensable.
Amid a discreet silence, broken only by little murmurs of appreciation and perfumed applause, the lady of honor read the lines, translating them as she read: "If Beauty so sweet in all gentleness drest, In loveliness, virtue arrayed; By the graces adorned, by the muses carest, By lofty ambition obeyed; Ah! who shall escape from the gold-painted dart, When Orléans touches the bow?
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