Dodo Wonders–

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Benson Edward Frederic. Dodo Wonders–

CHAPTER I. DODO DE SENECTUTE

CHAPTER II. HIGHNESS

CHAPTER III. CROSS-CURRENTS

CHAPTER IV. JUMBO

CHAPTER V. A MAN'S HAND

CHAPTER VI. A WATERLOO BALL

CHAPTER VII. DODO'S APPRENTICESHIP

CHAPTER VIII. EDITH DECLARES WAR

CHAPTER IX. MID-STREAM

CHAPTER X. THE SILVER BOW

CHAPTER XI. DODO'S NIGHT OUT

CHAPTER XII. THE REVIVAL

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Unlike most women Dodo much preferred to breakfast downstairs in a large dining-room, facing the window, rather than mumble a private tray in bed. Jack, in consequence, was allowed to be as grumpy as he pleased at this meal, for Dodo's sense of fairness told her that if she was so unfeminine as to feel cheerful and sociable at half-past nine in the morning, she must not expect her husband to be so unmasculine as to resemble her.

"Crumbs get into my bed," she had said to Edith the evening before, when, the morning venue was debated, "and my egg tastes of blankets. And I hate bed when I wake: I feel bright and brisk and fresh, which is very trying for other people. Jack breakfasts downstairs, too, though if you asked him to breakfast in your bedroom, I daresay he would come."

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"So screaming!" she said. "Nobody here, neither dearest Dodo nor her husband to receive us, so when they come we will receive them. Where is she?"

Nadine pointed to an aeroplane that was flying low over the house.

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