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"All I ask is," she concluded, "that they shouldn't bother ruel" And she twinkled a little wistfully at Archer
It was that evening, on his return ho a farewell dinner to her cousin Madame Olenska's naht of her flight to Washington; and Archer looked at his ith surprise
"A dinner--why?" he interrogated
Her colour rose "But you like Ellen--I thought you'd be pleased"
"It's awfully nice--your putting it in that way But I really don't see--"
"Ito her desk "Here are the invitations all written Mother helped ht to" She paused, e, and Archer suddenly saw before hiht," he said, staring with unseeing eyes at the list of guests that she had put in his hand
When he entered the drawing-roo to coax the logs to burn in their unaccusto of immaculate tiles
The tall lamps were all lit, and Mr van der Luyden's orchids had been conspicuously disposed in various receptacles of modern porcelain and knobby silver Mrs Newland Archer's drawing-rooilt bamboo jardiniere, in which the primulas and cinerarias were punctually renewed, blocked the access to the bay here the old-fashioned would have preferred a bronze reduction of the Venus of Milo); the sofas and arrouped about little plush tables densely covered with silver toys, porcelain aniraph frames; and tall rosy-shaded la the palhted up," said May, rising flushed frolance of pardonable pride The brass tongs which she had propped against the side of the chimney fell with a crash that drowned her husband's answer; and before he could restore theuests quickly followed, for it was known that the van der Luydens liked to dine punctually The roo to Mrs Selfridge Merry a shly-varnished Verbeckhoven "Study of Sheep," which Mr Welland had given May for Christmas, when he found Madame Olenska at his side
She was excessively pale, and her pallor made her dark hair seem denser and heavier than ever Perhaps that, or the fact that she had wound several rows of amber beads about her neck, reott he had danced with at children's parties, when Medora Manson had first brought her to New York