[A Voyage of Consolation by Sara Jeannette Duncan]@TWC D-Link bookA Voyage of Consolation CHAPTER XVI 11/23
See ?" But the interpreter did not see.
He beckoned instead to an engaging daughter of the fat lady, who approached modestly with a large book of photographs, which she opened before the Senator, kneeling beside his chair. "Great Scott!" exclaimed poppa, "I'm not a crowned head.
Rise, Miss Diomede." Removing his cigar, he assisted the young lady to her feet and led her to a sofa at the other end of the room, where, as they turned over the photographs together, I heard him ask her if she objected to tobacco. "You may go," said momma to the interpreter, "and explain the scenes. Mr.Wick will enjoy them much more if he understands them." The freedom from conventional restraint which characterises American society very seldom extends to married gentlemen. We had to wait twenty minutes for the other party, on account of their British objection to anybody's dust.
Even Mr.Mafferton looked quelled when they arrived, and Isabel quite abject, while Mrs.Portheris wore that air of justification which no circumstance could impair, which was particularly her own.
She would not sit down.
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