Penelope's English Experiences
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Wiggin Kate Douglas Smith. Penelope's English Experiences
Part First—In Town
Chapter I. The weekly bill
Chapter II. The powdered footman smiles
Chapter III. Eggs a la coque
Chapter IV. The English sense of humour
Chapter V. A Hyde Park Sunday
Chapter VI. The English Park Lover
Chapter VII. A ducal tea-party
Chapter VIII. Tuppenny travels in London
Chapter IX. A Table of Kindred and Affinity
Chapter X. Apropos of advertisements
Chapter XI. The ball on the opposite side
Chapter XII. Patricia makes her debut
Chapter XIII. A Penelope secret
Chapter XIV. Love and lavender
Part Second—In the country
Chapter XV. Penelope dreams
Chapter XVI. The decay of Romance
Chapter XVII. Short stops and long bills
Chapter XVIII. I meet Mrs. Bobby
Chapter XIX. The heart of the artist
Chapter XX. A canticle to Jane
Chapter XXI. I remember, I remember
Chapter XXII. Comfort Cottage
Chapter XXIII. Tea served here
Chapter XXIV. An unlicensed victualler
Chapter XXV. Et ego in Arcadia vixit
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Here we are in London again,—Francesca, Salemina, and I. Salemina is a philanthropist of the Boston philanthropists limited. I am an artist. Francesca is— It is very difficult to label Francesca. She is, at her present stage of development, just a nice girl; that is about all: the sense of humanity hasn’t dawned upon her yet; she is even unaware that personal responsibility for the universe has come into vogue, and so she is happy.
Francesca is short of twenty years old, Salemina short of forty, I short of thirty. Francesca is in love, Salemina never has been in love, I never shall be in love. Francesca is rich, Salemina is well-to-do, I am poor. There we are in a nutshell.
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Francesca. “Oh! so it was; but I sent no telegrams on the 11th.”
Penelope. “Wasn’t that the day you wired Mr. Drayton that you couldn’t go to the Zoo?”
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