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A House-Boat on the Styx

CHAPTER XII: THE HOUSE-BOAT DISAPPEARS
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We don't know what goes on in there.

Socrates tells me that their amusements are of a most innocent nature, but how do I know what he means by that?
Furthermore, it keeps him from home, while I have to stay at home and be entertained by my sons, whom the Encyclopaedia Britannica rightly calls dull and fatuous.

In other words, club life for him, and dulness and fatuity for me." "I think myself they're rather queer about letting women into that boat," said Queen Elizabeth.

"But it isn't Sir Walter's fault.

He told me he tried to have them establish a Ladies' Day, and that they agreed to do so, but have since resisted all his efforts to have a date set for the function." "It would be great fun to steal in there now, wouldn't it," giggled Ophelia.


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