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I shall ask Althea again some time. She really has a great many lovely
qualities, as I said to the Skeptic. But there is a little room I have,
which I do not call a guest-room, into which I shall put Althea. It has
a sort of chocolate paper on the walls, on which I do not think the
marks of matches would much show, and it has a general suitableness to
this particular guest. I have sometimes harboured small boys there, for
the toilet appointments are done in red on brown linen, and curling
irons could be laid on them without serious damage. And I've no doubt
that she would like that room quite as well.
II
CAMELLIA
You thought to break a country heart
For pastime, ere you went to town.
--_Tennyson._
"Did you say Camellia is going to stop here on her way home?" asked the
Gay Lady.
"For a few days," I assented.
The Gay Lady was standing in front of the closet in her room, in which
hung a row of frocks, on little hangers covered with pale blue ribbon.
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