[Grace Harlowe’s Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower]@TWC D-Link bookGrace Harlowe’s Third Year at Overton College CHAPTER IX 6/16
Then came the Japanese tea shop, with the Emerson twins as proprietors, looking so realistically Japanese that Arline declared she didn't believe they were the Emerson twins, but two geisha girls straight from Japan.
At intervals, when their patrons had all been served, they sidled up to the center of the shop and performed a quaint Oriental dance for the entertainment of their guests. [Illustration: The Emerson Twins Looked Realistically Japanese.] Violet Darby had been asked to preside at the Shamrock booth instead of Arline, as had first been suggested, Arline having been elected to portray the world-renowned Alice.
As an Irish colleen, Violet, however, proved a distinct success, and thrilled her hearers with "Kathleen Mavourneen" and "The Harp that Once Through Tara's Halls." Her voice held that peculiarly sweet, plaintive quality so necessary to bring out the beauty of the old Irish melodies, and Grace and Anne both agreed that there was only one who could surpass her.
There was only one Nora O'Malley. Farther on four pretty sophomores, dressed as Norman peasant girls, were dispensing cakes and ices to a steadily increasing patronage.
There was a postcard and souvenir booth, around which a crowd seemed perpetually stationed.
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