[Penny Plain by Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)]@TWC D-Link bookPenny Plain CHAPTER IV 12/13
You have it, too; I have it; all really nice people have it.
I have been refreshing myself with _Irish Memories_ since dinner.
Do you remember what is said of Martin Ross? 'The large conventional jest had but small power over her; it was the trivial absurdity, the inversion of the expected the sublimity getting a little above itself and failing to realise that it had taken that fatal step over the border--those were the things that felled her, and laid her, wherever she might be, in ruins....' "Bella Bathgate, I must tell you, remains unthawed.
She hinted to me to-night that she thought the Hydropathic was the place for me--surely the unkindest cut of all.
People dress for dinner every night there, she tells me, and most of them are English, and a band plays.
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