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Updated: May 13, 2025
"The girl who writes came from Pond City. She was in the same atelier in Paris with George. She says: 'Your friends the Waldeaux have come to grief by a short cut. They flung money about for a few months as if they were backed by the Barings. The Barings might have given their suppers. As for their studio there was no untidier jumble of old armor and brasses and Spanish leather in Paris; and Mme.
Polly looked untidier than ever; she wore a slatternly wrapper, and her hair was thrust unbrushed into its net. But she suffered, no doubt, in her own way; she was red-eyed, and very hasty-handed with her nestful of babes. Sitting in the cheerless parlour, Ned's dark-eyed eldest on her knee, Mary strove to soothe and encourage.
In the middle of the afternoon they arrived at Ventimiglia and changed trains. "Are we in Italy now?" said Caesar. "Yes." "It seems untidier than France." "Yes; but more charming." The train kept stopping at almost all the little towns along the route. In a third-class car somebody was playing an accordeon. It was Sunday.
The women were much like all the women of cow-country: mothers with small children who early became cross and sleepy and were hushed under shawls on the most convenient bed, a piece of cake in their hands; mothers whose faces were lined too soon with work and ill-health, and with untidy hair that became untidier as the dance progressed.
The handwriting suddenly grew untidier than ever; two great blots defaced the paper; the style became feebly hysterical. Good Heavens! what did I read when I made it out at last!
In the next room I went into an old woman lay in bed with her head tied up in bandages. The room had not much in it, or it would have been untidier; it looked neglected and gloomy, and some dirty plates, suggestive of long-past dinners, were piled on the table. "Oh, such headaches!" groaned the old woman when she saw me, and moved her head from side to side on the pillow.
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