[A Sappho of Green Springs by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookA Sappho of Green Springs CHAPTER I 11/21
Clean and faultless in his appearance, he had the rare gift of being able to get up at two in the afternoon with much of the dewy freshness and all of the moral superiority of an early riser. "You ought to have been here just now, Jack," said the editor. "Not a row, old man, eh ?" inquired Jack, with a faint accession of interest. "No," said the editor, smiling.
Then he related the incidents of the previous interview, with a certain humorous exaggeration which was part of his nature.
But Jack did not smile. "You ought to have booted him out of the ranch on sight," he said.
"What right had he to come here prying into a lady's affairs ?--at least a lady as far as HE knows.
Of course she's some old blowzy with frumpled hair trying to rope in a greenhorn with a string of words and phrases," concluded Jack, carelessly, who had an equally cynical distrust of the sex and of literature. "That's about what I told him," said the editor. "That's just what you SHOULDN'T have told him," returned Jack.
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