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platform One old man was stalwart and ruddy, with a cordial eye and a

handso face The other was bent and treh brow, deeply lined,

the brow of a scholar, and a grandly flohite beard that covered his

chest, the beard of a patriarch One of the young women was tall and had

the rosy cheeks and pleasant eyes of her father, who preceded her The

other was the strange lady

A universal perturbation followed her progress up the aisle, if she had

known it She was small and fair, very daintily and beautifully made; a

pretty Marquise whose head Greuze should have painted Mrs Columbus

Landis, wife of the proprietor of the Palace Hotel, conferring with a lady

in the next seat, applied an over-burdened adjective: "It ain't so h she is, that--but don't you notice she's got a kind

of smart look to her? Her bein' so teeny, kind of ossips of the s to awed admiration,

however, was the unconcerned and stoical fashion in which she wore a long

bodkin straight through her head It seee sacrifice merely to

make sure one's hat remained in place