2/32 "Miss Dandridge is sitting beneath the catalpa tree." The other made a movement towards the door. He is reading aloud--Eloisa to Abelard, or some such impassioned stuff. Don't apologize! I have no objection to expletives." The younger Cary laid down his hat, took a chair with great deliberation, and flecked his boot with his riding-whip. "The catalpa shall be sacred for me. Eloisa to Abelard! Is it a long poem, sir ?" "It is longer than its author was. |