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Updated: May 21, 2025
We used to talk sonnets together, and Verlaine. Just then I was trying to run a pipe from the Pierian spring." "You were on the floor with her," said Octavia, undeflected, "five times at the Hammersmiths'." "Hammersmiths' what?" questioned Teddy, vacuously. "Ball ball," said Octavia, viciously. "What were we talking of?" "Eyes, I thought," said Teddy, after some reflection; "and elbows."
"Those Hammersmiths," went on Octavia, in her sweetest society prattle, after subduing an intense desire to yank a handful of sunburnt, sandy hair from the head lying back contentedly against the canvas of the steamer chair, "had too much money. Mines, wasn't it? It was something that paid something to the ton. You couldn't get a glass of plain water in their house.
"Teddy's fenced, too," said Octavia to herself. It was not difficult for her to reason out the cause of his fortifications. It had originated one night at the Hammersmiths' ball. It occurred at a time soon after she had decided to accept Colonel Beaupree and his million, which was no more than her looks and the entree she held to the inner circles were worth.
She cautiously overturned the pillow, and then parted her lips to give the signal for reinforcements at sight of a long, slender, dark object lying there. But, repressing it in time, she caught up a glove, a pearl-gray glove, flattened it might be conceived by many, many months of nightly pressure beneath the pillow of the man who had forgotten the Hammersmiths' ball.
Long and short make it all, and wherever long and short can be combined, be it in marks, sounds, sneezes, fainting-fits, canes, or children, ideas can be conveyed by this arrangement of the long and short together. Only last night I was talking scandal with Mrs. Wilberforce at a summer party at the Hammersmiths.
"Did you lose something? asked Octavia, with sweetly polite non-interest. "The little devil!" said Mrs. Maclntyre, driven to violence. "Ye've no forgotten him alretty?" Between them they slew the centipede. Thus was he rewarded for his agency toward the recovery of things lost at the Hammersmiths' ball.
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