[Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock]@TWC D-Link bookArcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich CHAPTER FIVE: The Love Story of Mr 20/51
Mr.Spillikins had alighted, and there was Miss Philippa Furlong sitting behind the chauffeur in the Newberrys' motor.
She was looking as beautiful as only the younger sister of a High Church episcopalian rector can look, dressed in white, the colour of saintliness, on a beautiful morning in July. There was no doubt about Philippa Furlong.
Her beauty was of that peculiar and almost sacred kind found only in the immediate neighbourhood of the High Church clergy.
It was admitted by all who envied or admired her that she could enter a church more gracefully, move more swimmingly up the aisle, and pray better than any girl on Plutoria Avenue. Mr.Spillikins, as he gazed at her in her white summer dress and wide picture hat, with her parasol nodding above her head, realized that after all, religion, as embodied in the younger sisters of the High Church clergy, fills a great place in the world. "By Jove!" he repeated, "how awfully good of you!" "Not a bit," said Philippa.
"Hop in.
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