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It led through a land that I knew of old, Frequented by friendly, familiar folk, Who bowed before Mammon, and heaped up gold, And lived like their neighbours, and loved their joke. It was a lovely summer's day when Lady Silverhampton collected her forces at Paddingdon, conveyed them by rail as far as Reading, and then transported them from the train to her steam-launch on the river.
That is why I confide so absolutely in Silverhampton; he never listens to a word I say, and never has done." Lord Stonebridge amended this remark. "Except when you accepted him." "Certainly not; because, as a matter of fact, I refused him; but he never listened, and so he married me. It is so restful to have a husband who never attends to what you say!
"If I were as stout as Lady Silverhampton," said Elisabeth thoughtfully, "I should either cut myself up into building lots, or else let myself out into market gardens: I should never go about whole; should you?" "Certainly not; I would rather publish myself in sections, as dictionaries and encyclopædias do!"
"You are both," said Cecil. "And I'm neither," added Lord Bobby; "so what's the state of the odds?" "Let's invent more invisible costumes," cried Lady Silverhampton; "they interest me. Suggest another one, Elisabeth." "I should design a special one for lovers in the country.
"Let us go into the next room," said Elisabeth, rising from her seat; "I see Lady Silverhampton nodding to me, and I must go and speak to her." Cecil Farquhar bent his six-foot-one down to her five-foot-five. "Are you angry with me?" he whispered. "I don't know; I think I am." "But you will let me come and see you, so that you may forgive me, won't you?" "You don't deserve it."
"Isn't it funny," Elisabeth remarked, "that if you reason a thing out you're always wrong, and if you never reason about it at all you're always right?" "Ah! but that is because you are a genius," murmured Cecil Farquhar. Lady Silverhampton contradicted him. "Not at all; it's because she is a woman." "Well, I'd rather be a woman than a genius any day," said Elisabeth; "it takes less keeping up."
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