We Three

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Gouverneur Morris. We Three

We Three

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"Dark against the light illumination of the hall stood Lucy Fulton" … … … … Frontispiece

WE THREE

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IV

"They met with an honest kiss, like lovers long parted."

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VI

VII

VIII

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X

XI

"'It's what you and I stood up and promised before a lot of people.'"

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XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

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XVIII

XIX

XX

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XXII

"'You are all that counts … you know that.'"

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Gouverneur Morris

Published by Good Press, 2019

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This is not the time to take up those great issues which have risen between those who are tempted by drink and fall, and those who are not tempted and don't. But I am very sure of this: that a vast majority of the men who make the world go round drink or have drunk; and that when at last the world comes to be governed by those who don't and haven't, it will be even worse governed, more pettily and meddlesomely, than it is at present. And that is saying a good deal, even for a butterfly.

You mustn't gather that Fulton and his friends were a goody-goody set of boys. They erred and strayed from their ways at times, like the worst of us. There was Browning for instance, a born experimenter, who so experimented with cocktails one fine morning (at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Forty-third Street) that he marched into Madame Castignet's French class, drunk as a lord, full of argument, and was presently expelled from the school. It was commonly said that the disgrace of it would hound him through life. Far from it! Those who at this day pack Carnegie Lyceum to hear him play the violin, and who listen, laughing and crying, and comparing him to the incomparable Kreisler, perceive no disgrace in that youthful episode, rather they see in it an early indication of the divine temperament trying to shake off its fetters and be free.

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