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The Boss of Little Arcady

CHAPTER VII
18/23

Well, I must be going now.

_Good_ day!" Sometimes she ran back to say, "Now do come over some day and bring your work!" The butterflies pursued by my namesake were various, and some of them were more secret.
For one he made me stand with him while he gazed long into the drug-store window.

I divined at last that those giant chalices, one of green and one of ruby liquor, were the objects of his worship.

He could not have told me this, but I knew that in his mind these were compounds of unparalleled richness, potent with Heaven knows what wondrous charms.
It was not that he dreamed ever of securing any of the stuff; the spell endured only while they must stand there, remote, splendid, inaccessible.
Then we strolled down the quiet street to a road that went close to the railway.

And there, with beating hearts, we beheld the two-twenty Eastern freight rattle superbly by us.


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