"Why, Duffer, dear, it can't possibly be you!"I gave a jump, for I hadn't heard that voice for many a year, and between the ages of fourand fourteen I had been in love with it."Brigit O'Brien!" said I. Then I grabbed her two hands and shook them as if her arms hadbeen branches of a young cherry tree, dropping fruit."Why not Biddy?" she asked. "Or are ye wanting me to call ye Lord Ernest?""Good heavens, no! Once a Duffer, always a Duffer," I assured her. "And I've been thinkingof you as Biddy from then till now. Only-""'Twas ...
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"Why, Duffer, dear, it can't possibly be you!"I gave a jump, for I hadn't heard that voice for many a year, and between the ages of fourand fourteen I had been in love with it."Brigit O'Brien!" said I. Then I grabbed her two hands and shook them as if her arms hadbeen branches of a young cherry tree, dropping fruit."Why not Biddy?" she asked. "Or are ye wanting me to call ye Lord Ernest?""Good heavens, no! Once a Duffer, always a Duffer," I assured her. "And I've been thinkingof you as Biddy from then till now. Only-""'Twas as clever a thing as a boy ever did," she broke in, with one of her smiles that no manever forgets, "to begin duffing at an early age, in order to escape all the professions andbusinesses your pastors and masters proposed, and go your own way. Are ye at it still?""Rather! But you? I want to talk to you.""Then don't do it in a loud voice, if you please, because, as you must have realized, if you'vetaken time to think, I'm Mrs. Jones at present.""Why Jones?""Because Smith is engaged beforehand by too many people. Honestly, without joking, I'm indanger here and everywhere, and it's a wicked, selfish thing for me to come the way I have;but Rosamond Gilder is the hardest girl to resist you ever saw, so I'm with her; and it's along history.""Rosamond Gilder? What-the Cannon Princess, the Bertha Krupp of America?""Yes, the 'Gilded Babe' that used to be wheeled about in a caged perambulator guarded bydetectives: the 'Gilded Bud' whose coming out in society was called the Million DollarD???but: now she's just had her twenty-first birthday, and the Sunday Supplements havepromoted her to be the Golden Girl, alternating with the Gilded Rose, although she's thesimplest creature, really, with a tremendous sense of the responsibility of her riches. Poorchild! There she is, walking toward us now, with those two young men.
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