This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...she said to Cassie. "I can't think of any better kind of relation to have." "Not even a husband?" asked the sister, who was sufficiently observant of Dick. "Far nicer than a husband," said Isabel with conviction. "It's all so natural and no complications." Still, she had not yet begun to feel that aversion to a man who ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...she said to Cassie. "I can't think of any better kind of relation to have." "Not even a husband?" asked the sister, who was sufficiently observant of Dick. "Far nicer than a husband," said Isabel with conviction. "It's all so natural and no complications." Still, she had not yet begun to feel that aversion to a man who was not a brother which she had experienced on other occasions. D1ck's steamer was due to sail the next day; and he and his father were smoking together on the verandah after luncheon. "I suppose you are taking the night train?" said Peter Malden. Dick flushed and didn't reply for a moment. Then he said abruptly: "What would you say if I gave up my passage and stayed home?" Peter Malden would have been less surprised if he had paid more attention to the doings of the young people. He was not slow, however, in forming a surmise. He took the cigar out of his mouth and gave his son a long, shrewd look. "Who is it?" he asked. Dick flushed again and laughed. He hesitated a moment, looking off through the thick foliage of the horse-chestnut trees to the street beyond. "You were always on to me," he said, "ever since the time when I ran away from my first school to go swimming." "You weren't out of kilts." His father leaned back and stroked his heavy gray mustache, chuckling at the remembrance. "And when any other little chap would have been spanked and put to bed, you hired a man to teach me to swim." "You would have run away over again--and I didn't want to have you drowned. I was that selfish." "And when I ran away to enlist you caught up with me and got me into West Point. I can't thank you enough for that." "Wel...
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