She tiptoed to the stand and gathered up the
manuscripts which she carried to a chair by the window. She found herself trying on the baubles he
brought home, placing the silver rings upon her slim
fingers, knowing that he would take up her hand and kiss
it. You, Anna, are one of them. There are so many girls nowadays who are quite unpresentable at
tea, with their untrimmed laughs, their awful dispositions of their legs when they
sit down, their slangy disrespect; they no longer smoke, it is true, like the girls of
the eighties and nineties, nevertheless to a fine intelligence they have the flavor
of tobacco. Of course, this
does not apply to uninteresting old maids," Prudence modified with a dry little
smile. Here was a poor half-naked
creature, with a straw crown on his head, and a wooden sceptre in his hand,
seated on the ground with all the dignity of a monarch on his throne. He then made off. He fancied that the turnkeys had discovered his flight and were in pursuit
of him,—that they had climbed up the chimney,—entered the Red Room,—
tracked him from door to door, and were now only detained by the gate which he
had left unbroken in the chapel. Do you accept it?"
"Dear Thames!"
"Forgive this ill-timed avowal of my love. You've never seen a typhoon, have you?"
"No.
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