[The President by Alfred Henry Lewis]@TWC D-Link bookThe President CHAPTER XXIII 7/26
"Weally, I shall need all the couwage my fwiends can give me.
And you know, Stawms, I stood by you." Mrs.Hanway-Harley supposed the happy ones were to take the B.& O.for New York; Richard explained that they would have a boat. "In fact," said Richard, "the captain has just sent me word that the yacht is anchored off the Navy Yard, awaiting our going aboard." "Yacht ?" said Mrs.Hanway-Harley.
"Oh, I see; Mr.Gwynn's." "No, not Mr.Gwynn's.
Ours."-- And Richard looked more lamblike than ever. Mrs.Hanway-Harley became sorely puzzled.
The truth was slowly soaking into her not over-porous comprehension. As the launch, with the wedding party, rounded the yacht's stern to reach her gangway on the off-shore side, Mrs.Hanway-Harley read in letters of raised gilt: _Dorothy Storms_.
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