[The President by Alfred Henry Lewis]@TWC D-Link bookThe President CHAPTER I 16/28
The daughter was a flower, the mother a weed.
He decided that the superiority of Dorothy was due to the father, and gave that absent gentleman a world of credit without waiting to make his acquaintance. Mrs.Hanway-Harley said that she lived in Washington.
Where did Mr. Storms live? "My home has been nowhere for ten years," returned Richard.
Then, as he looked at Dorothy, while his heart took a firmer grip on the picture: "But I shall live in Washington in a few months." Dorothy, the saved, beneath whose boot-heel beat Richard's heart, looked up, and in the blue depths--so Richard thought--shone pleasure at the news.
He could not be certain, for when the blue eyes met the gray ones, they fell to a furtive consideration of the floor. "You are to take a house in Washington," said Richard to Mr.Gwynn an hour later. Mr.Gwynn bowed. You who read will now come back to that snow-filled day in November. Richard relocked his dear boot-heel in the casket; eleven and Matzai had entered the room together.
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