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"Why, Xingu, of course!" she exclaimed. A profound silence followed this challenge to the resources of Mrs. "I should think not!" exclaimed Mrs. Plinth. "It is a book, then?" said Miss Van Vluyck. This again threw the company into disarray, and Mrs. Ballinger, with an impatient sigh, rejoined: "Why there is a book naturally...." "Then why did Miss Glyde call it a religion?"
It may have made Osric Dane furious, but at least it made her civil." "I am glad we were able to show her," added Miss Van Vluyck, "that a broad and up-to-date culture is not confined to the great intellectual centres." This increased the satisfaction of the other members, and they began to forget their wrath against Osric Dane in the pleasure of having contributed to her discomfiture.
"Well, my dear," the new-comer briskly asked her hostess, "what subjects are we to discuss to-day?" Mrs. Ballinger was furtively replacing a volume of Wordsworth by a copy of Verlaine. "I hardly know," she said somewhat nervously. "Perhaps we had better leave that to circumstances." "Circumstances?" said Miss Van Vluyck drily.
"Why, what she said about the source that it was corrupt?" "Not corrupt, but hard to get at," Laura Glyde corrected. "Some one who'd been there had told her so. I daresay it was the explorer himself doesn't it say the expedition was dangerous?" "'Difficult and dangerous," read Miss Van Vluyck. Mrs. Ballinger pressed her hands to her throbbing temples.
Ballinger and Laura Glyde, but Miss Van Vluyck said: "Excuse me if I tell you that you're all mistaken. Xingu happens to be a language." "A language!" the Lunch Club cried. "Certainly. Don't you remember Fanny Roby's saying that there were several branches, and that some were hard to trace? What could that apply to but dialects?" Mrs. Ballinger could no longer restrain a contemptuous laugh.
Ballinger and Laura Glyde, but Miss Van Vluyck said dogmatically: "Excuse me if I tell you that you're all mistaken. Xingu happens to be a language." "A language!" the Lunch Club cried. "Certainly. Don't you remember Fanny Roby's saying that there were several branches, and that some were hard to trace? What could that apply to but dialects?" Mrs.
At this point the production of her treasured volume gave Mrs. Leveret, for a moment, the unusual experience of occupying the centre front; but she was not able to hold it long, for Appropriate Allusions contained no mention of Xingu. "Oh, that's not the kind of thing we want!" exclaimed Miss Van Vluyck. She cast a disparaging glance over Mrs.
"Why, Xingu, of course!" she exclaimed. A profound silence followed this direct challenge to the resources of Mrs. "I should think NOT!" exclaimed Mrs. Plinth. "It IS a book, then?" said Miss Van Vluyck. This again threw the company into disarray, and Mrs. Ballinger, with an impatient sigh, rejoined: "Why there IS a book naturally..." "Then why did Miss Glyde call it a religion?"
Leveret moaned: "I don't see how she COULD!" and Miss Van Vluyck said, picking up her note-book: "Some women stop at nothing." " but if," Mrs. Roby's resignation or to offer mine." "Oh, Mrs. Plinth " gasped the Lunch Club. "Fortunately for me," Mrs.
Plinth, who was fond of asking questions that she permitted no one but herself to answer. "Assuredly not." "Assuredly not that is what I was going to say," assented Mrs. Leveret, hastily rolling up her opinion and reaching for another. "It was meant to to elevate." Miss Van Vluyck adjusted her spectacles as though they were the black cap of condemnation.
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