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Scan 83
The second violin, 1906
14 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 61. See the scan on archive.org.
1getting up festivities on any pretext, but if there happened to be a birthday handy——"
3"November—yes. Why, we had forgotten all about it! Lanse's birthday is the fourth. That's——"
5"Day after to-morrow. Good! Can you make him a birthday-cake? If not, I——"
7"Oh, yes, I can!" cried Charlotte, eagerly. "I've just learned an orange-cake."
9"All right. Then we'll order a few little things from town, and have a jollification. Not a very big one, on account of the lady on the couch there, who reminds me at the moment of a water-lily whom some one has picked and then left on the stern seat in the sun. She looks very sweet, but a trifle limp."
11Celia's smile was several degrees brighter than the previous one had been. Nobody could resist Uncle Ray when he began to exert himself to cheer people up.
13He was a young, or an old, bachelor, according to one's point of view, being not yet forty, and looking, in spite of the past suffering which had brought into his chestnut hair two patches of gray at the temples, very much like a bright-faced boy with an irrepressible spirit of energy and interest in the life about him. It could hardly be doubted that Capt. John Rayburn, apparently invalided for
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