5/18 "What ?" she asked, giving him her hand. "It is a delight!" "I am sure--" she began. See!" He turned to a Peterborough, for which McPherson had just mulcted him of thrice its value. "The canoe! Is it not--not--what you Yankees call--a bute ?" "Oh, the canoe," she repeated, with a falling inflection of chagrin. |