[The Common Law by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Common Law CHAPTER XVI 23/40
What's Arizona like, anyway ?" "Half hell, half paradise, they say." "Then me for the celestial section.
Ogilvy gave me the name of a place"-- he fumbled about--"Rita has it, I believe....
Isn't she a corker to go? My conscience, Kelly, what a Godsend it will be to have a Massachusetts girl out there to talk to!" "Isn't she going as your model ?" "My Lord, man! Don't you talk to a model? Is a nice girl who poses for a fellow anything extra-human or superhuman or--or unhuman or inhuman--so that intelligent conversation becomes impossible ?" "No," began Neville, laughing, but Burleson interrupted excitedly: "A girl can be anything she chooses if she's all right, can't she? And Rita comes from Massachusetts, doesn't she ?" "Certainly." "Not only from Massachusetts, but from Hitherford!" added Burleson triumphantly.
"I came from Hitherford.
My grandfather knew hers.
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