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At sundown Spurlock was brought aboard and put into cabin 2, while Ruth was
assigned to cabin 4, adjoining. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc. Those were dreams. That'll tune me up. She handled it half fearfully, and set it carefully down
again. It would put the whole adventure on a
broader and better footing; it seemed, indeed, almost the only possible way in
which she might emerge from her rebellion with anything like success. If only this man had
been her father! The world would have meant nothing; the island would have
been wide enough. . "Good night. The colouring was green and white, with softly shaded
electric lights, an alcove bedstead, which was a miracle of daintiness, white
furniture, and a long low dressing-table littered all over with a multitude of
daintily fashioned toilet appliances. ’
‘Lucilla,’ gasped Hilary, his cheeks reddening with wrath. Then he goes stony, and beats
his way around the islands for another three months. ”
“Good God!” said Mr.
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