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Updated: June 29, 2025
"'It occurs to me that I have never been so fortunate, says the colonel. "So I told it to him. Laugh! I was wishing to myself that he was a customer. What a bill of glass I'd sell him! And then he says: "'The relating of anecdotes and humorous occurrences has always seemed to me, Mr. Pescud, to be a particularly agreeable way of promoting and perpetuating amenities between friends.
Next year the firm is going to sell me some shares of stock. Oh, I'm in on the line of General Prosperity, no matter who's elected!" "Met your affinity yet, John?" I asked. "Oh, I didn't tell you about that, did I?" said Pescud with a broader grin. "O-ho!" I said. "So you've taken time enough off from your plate-glass to have a romance?" "No, no," said John. "No romance nothing like that!
"Why," said Pescud, "the other day I took Jessie for a little trip to Philadelphia, and coming back she thought she saw some petunias in a pot in one of those windows over there just like some she used to raise down in the old Virginia home. So I thought I'd drop off here for the night, and see if I could dig up some of the cuttings or blossoms for her. Here we are. Good-night, old man.
Pescud picked up the best-seller and hunted his page. "Listen at this," said he. "Trevelyan is chinning with the Princess Alwyna at the back end of the tulip-garden. This is how it goes: "'Say not so, dearest and sweetest of earth's fairest flowers. Would I aspire? You are a star set high above me in a royal heaven; I am only myself. Yet I am a man, and I have a heart to do and dare.
For, I goes on, 'if you said I might come and see you, the earls might be belted or suspendered, or pinned up with safety-pins, as far as I am concerned. "'I must not talk to you, she says, 'because we have not been introduced. It is not exactly proper. So I will say good-bye, Mr. "'Say the name, says I. 'You haven't forgotten it. "'Pescud, says she, a little mad.
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