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He answered, "All my models are first made in black and white muslin, and then copied in the material and coloring which I select. In a studio our models are photographed for future reference." Saying this, he excused himself to welcome new arrivals, first having placed the Harrises in charge of a competent assistant.
The colonel was told that the Waldorf occupies the site of the town-house of John Jacob Astor, third of the name, and was erected by his son, William Waldorf, ex-minister to Italy. It was two o'clock when the Harrises entered the main dining-room for their lunch.
Willett, something of a Sybarite, craved iced drinks and cooling applications that gave more trouble, said Strong, than twenty Harrises. Willett had even gone so far as to suggest that the ladies must be tired of reading aloud, possibly Miss Lilian might relieve one or other, and possibly, hope whispered, both.
Good-byes were cordially exchanged and the "Hallena" steamed south to Palermo, en route to Athens and other Levantine cities, while the Harrises took the express for Rome. Leo was glad to see the "Hallena" steam away, and to be with Lucille aboard a train moving towards Rome.
His face was very placid and unmoved as he questioned Jake of the relatives in Georgia, whom Amy's mother had visited. "We must find them," he said. "Do you know anything of them? Were they Harrises, or what?" Jake said they were "Browns an' Crackers; not the real no 'counts. Thar's a difference, an' I'm shu' ole Miss Lucy was fust class, 'case Miss Dory was a lady bawn."
Siemens and said he should be pleased to examine further his department when at sea. It was past three o'clock when George turned off his gas at the hotel. At eight o'clock the next morning the Harrises met promptly at breakfast.
The Harrises after a stormy sea voyage were delighted again to put foot on mother earth, to enjoy the green terraces, ivy-clad walls, cottages, and churches, and also to see the shamrock, a tiny clover, which St. Patrick held up before the Irish people to prove the Holy Trinity. Lucille found the pretty yellow furz, the flower which Linnæus, the famous Swedish botanist, kissed.
I think we'll go home and have it out," he added, and shortly after led her away. "Some nice cool air is what we need," he said at the door. No sooner were the Harrises out of the door than the women of the party fell upon me. "What do you think of it, Mr. Garland?" asked Mrs. Cameron. "If Mrs.
From there hundreds of fishing boats extend their voyages every season to the Scotch coast and even to far-off Iceland. The scenery in the fertile valley of the Somme is beautiful. The route lies through Amiens, a large city of textile industries, thence across the Arve; the Harrises reached the station of the Northern Railway, in the Place Roubaix, in northern Paris as the sun faded in the west.
The carriages for the steamer could not go fast enough to satisfy the old, or the young people. Several schoolmates, artists, business and society friends met them on the dock. Many fashionable people had already arrived to say "Bon Voyage" to the Harrises and to Leo. Hundreds of others had come to see their own friends off.
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