13/47 I hope he'll shave first, an' put on his coat. I never see such a lookin' sight as he was when I met him jest now." "I didn't see as he looked very bad," said Sylvia, with dignity. Her hair blew out wildly from under her hood over her flushed cheeks; she smiled as if at something visible, past her sister, and past everything around her. "Sarah always was kind of hystericky," said she. "That spare-rib will be all dried up, an' I wouldn't give a cent for it, if you don't come along." Richard Alger and Sylvia Crane were married very soon. |