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Palmer, Frederic:The Ring and the Book
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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE OTHER HALF ROME Oh, it was the craziest thing you ever saw! My dear, I thought I should die just watching it. They'd had a chance to get into a good flirtation and out the other end of it before I saw them for they started with the steamer from Genoa, and we did n't come aboard till several days afterwards. And if they were n't deep in a flirtation by that time, it was no fault of hers you can just bet the caramels on that. Here, let's get out into the garden and cool off a bit. Are you engaged for the next dance ? Nor I either. I 'm tired. There is n't a decent man here to-night. Ah, this is better. You can get a breath under these trees. Here's a seat, where we can just keep in touch with the music. Lovely night, is n't it ? Oh, you were asking about that couple I met on the steamer a year ago. Well, there were a lot of us girls came aboard at Naples ? Mame and Daisy, and Betty Holroyd ? she was traveling with the Goodriches, you know ? and Tennie Ingersoll ? she's a case ? and that striking Fraulein Schmiedel. Altogether there must have been a dozen or so of us. As we came up the gang-plank, of course I was looking to see if there were any decent men aboard and first thing I saw him, leaning over the rail and watching us. He was simply stunning, the kind that mows you right down ? big and strong and would make any woman do what he said with a word. I wondered if he had any fun in him, and so as I passed him I gave him a look and dropped my umbrella. But as bad luck would have it, he turned that very instant to speak to some one. So of course I turned to see who it was. And there sat my Lady glowering, fairlyglowering at us. Oh, she thought she owned him already, and was mad at his looking at anybody else. The idea! Poor fellow! I don't envy him what the novelist...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<
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