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A Bicycle of Cathay

CHAPTER XI
10/17

In the morning we will get your machine from the Holly Sprig, and when you want to go on we will send you and it to Waterton in a wagon.

It is not a long drive, and it is much the pleasanter way to manage your business." The family showed themselves delighted when they heard that I was to spend the night with them, and I did not object to the plan, for I had not the slightest desire to go to a summer hotel.

Just before I went up to my room to get ready for supper, the young Genevieve came to me upon the porch.
"Would you mind," she said, "letting me feel your muscle ?" Very much surprised, I reached out my arm for her inspection, and she clasped her long thin fingers around my _biceps flexor cubiti._ Apparently, the inspection was very satisfactory to her.
"I would give anything," she said, "if I had muscle like that!" I laughed heartily.

"My dear little girl," said I, "you would be sorry, indeed, if you had anything of the sort.

When you grow up and go to parties, how would you like to show bare arms shaped like mine?
You would be a spectacle, indeed." "Well," said she, "perhaps you are right.


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