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To take this man who loved his slippers and easy-chair, and who was happy with a roll of papyrus, and plunge him into a seething pot of politics, not to mention matrimony, was refined cruelty. The matchmakers were busy, and soon Claudius was married to Messalina, the handsomest summer-girl in Rome. For a short time he bore up bravely, and was filled with the wish to benefit and bless.
"If it's all a fake of his, how came you to have heard of Braybridge paddling the canoe back for her?" "That was the fake that tested the fake. When he adopted it, I knew he was lying, because I was lying myself. And then the cheapness of the whole thing! I wonder that didn't strike you. It's the stuff that a thousand summer-girl stories have been spun out of.
He thought her serviceable costume very becoming, from the pinched felt hat pinned to the dark mass of hair, and the red silk kerchief knotted loosely round the pretty throat, to the leggings beneath the corduroy skirt and the flannel waist with sleeves rolled up in summer-girl fashion to leave the tanned arms bare to the dimpled elbows.
Morrow saw standing near the elevator door, a lithe, well-rounded girl with brown hair and great gray eyes that were fixed on him. She was in the regulation summer-girl attire blue Eton suit, pink shirtwaist, sailor hat, and russet shoes. He hastened to her. "Miss Hunt, I have the honour to return your bracelet."
He generally runs away to the Williamsons', which is the summer home of his John and his Sarah; and where lodges Miss Flossie Burns, of Tannersville, his summer-girl.
"If it's all a fake of his, how came you to have heard of Braybridge paddling the canoe back for her?" "That was the fake that tested the fake. When he adopted it, I knew he was lying, because I was lying myself. And then the cheapness of the whole thing! I wonder that didn't strike you. It's the stuff that a thousand summer-girl stories have been spun out of.
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