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Elsie Venner

CHAPTER VIII
15/27

I hope you had a good time." "Very.

Two or three of our girls were there.

Rosa Milburn.

What a beauty she is! I wonder what she feeds on! Wine and musk and chloroform and coals of fire, I believe; I didn't think there was such color and flavor in a woman outside the tropics." Miss Darley smiled rather faintly; the imagery was not just to her taste: femineity often finds it very hard to accept the fact of muliebrity.
"Was"-- ?
She stopped short; but her question had asked itself.
"Elsie there?
She was, for an hour or so.

She looked frightfully handsome.


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