[The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig by David Graham Phillips]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig CHAPTER II 36/37
"It's coming toward you fast enough.
That old lady will put you in your place. After ten minutes of her, you'll feel like a schoolboy who has 'got his' for sassing the teacher." "I want to meet her," repeated Craig.
And he watched her every movement; watched the men and women bowing deferentially about her chair; watched her truly royal dignity, as she was graciously pleased to relax now and then. "Every society has its mumbo-jumbo to keep it in order," said Arkwright. "She's ours....
I'm dead tired.
You've done enough for one night.
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