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We get hundreds of these daintily perfumed and monogramed little missives in the course of a year." "You mean Angus Forbes?" I asked. "Yes," replied the managing editor, "the fellow that they say has been trying to capture your friend Miss Winslow." I did not reply for the moment. Forbes, I had already learned, was deeply in debt.
Cristy Lawson's gift was a complete set of beautiful dishes and a bolt or two of dress goods and curtain material; there was a brand new, latest model repeating rifle from Phil and a gold watch, monogramed; McCorquodale sent a case of assorted tobaccos and a fine hunting-knife in a leather sheath, while from Jimmy Stiles came a big box of groceries.
"Oh, nothing at all," he said. "What are one or two Apaches more or less? You are all of the same breed." He turned his back on Jean and sat down. Producing a monogramed cigarette case he opened it, extracted a cigarette, and lighted up. He paid no further heed to those about him. Hal and Chester, out of the tail of their eyes, surveyed him critically.
And a dainty bit of stationery, sealed and monogramed, implored dear Neil's return to his heart-broken and loving mother. Neil Bonner did some swift thinking, and when the Yukon Belle coughed in to the bank on her way down to Bering Sea, he departed departed with the ancient lie of quick return young and blithe on his lips.
What if, after he lost interest, she should find herself without money, worse of than she had been when she sold herself into slavery highly moral and conventionally correct slavery, but still slavery to the little general with the peaked pink-silk nightcap hiding the absence of the removed toupee and with the wonderful pink-silk pajamas, gorgeously monogramed in violet and the tiny feet and ugly hands and those loathsome needle-pointed mustaches and the hideous habit of mumbling his tongue and smacking his lips?
That is his monogramed trail across the floor which caught your eye. Oh, he's here don't doubt that! I'll give you a little review of the manner of his coming, after you tell me how you ever happened to send him why you gave him that card? What's the answer to it, Chub?"
Warmth lay in that room, and a conservative mahogany elegance a great mahogany double bed, immaculately covered in white, with a large monogram heavily hand-embroidered in its center; a mahogany swell-front dresser, with a Honiton lace cover and a precise outlay of monogramed silver. Over it a gilt-framed French engraving with "Maternal Love" writ in elegant script beneath.
His dingy little room boasted only an iron bed and washstand, the rest of the floor space being principally occupied by his imposing brass- bound steamer-trunk covered with foreign labels. On the dusty shelf over the washstand stood an incongruous array of silver-mounted, monogramed toilet articles; around the wall ran a dado of shoes, while from the gas-pipe depended a heavy bunch of neckties.
There were monogramed toilet appointments beautiful to see; a leather-cased carriage clock, a shelf full of books that looked fascinating; towels; tiny rugs; a light above the hand-basin, and another to switch on above the bunk.... It was wonderful! And there was a looking-glass before her in which she could see her own reflection as clear as day too clearly for her pleasure!
But no man who wears clothes like those could ever win my heart. At least, not permanently." Well, she did most of the talking. She had finished the bath towle, which was a large size, after all, and monogramed, and she made me promise never to let my husband use it.
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