60/105 I wonder whoever bought ME a gold bangle." William was succeeding with his "Gipsy", as he called her. He asked the girl--her name was Louisa Lily Denys Western--for a photograph to send to his mother. The photo came--a handsome brunette, taken in profile, smirking slightly--and, it might be, quite naked, for on the photograph not a scrap of clothing was to be seen, only a naked bust. But do you think, my boy, it was very good taste of a girl to give her young man that photo to send to his mother--the first? But I hardly expected to see so much of them at the first view." Morel found the photograph standing on the chiffonier in the parlour. |