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They sat on Meredith's big porch in the late twilight and ate a

substantial refection, and when this was finished, a buzz of nonsense rose

from all quarters, except the remote corners where the youthful affianced

ones had defensively stationed the eaten, had naught to do, and were only waiting a decent hour

for departure Laughing voices passed up and down the street, andof Meredith's fountain, and, beyond the

shrubberies and fence, one caught gliht dresses of women

hboring lawns

to enjoy the twilight Now and then would pass, with pipe and dog, the

beflanneled figure of an undergraduate, home for vacation, or a trio of

youths in knickerbockers, or a band of young girls, or both trio and band

together; and frohter of

ro whirr of a laer: This sound

Harkless remarked as a ceaseless accoht there was always soone, and the stars had crept out, strolling

negroes patrolled the sidewalks, thruing, ht Venetian The untrained,

joyous voices, chording eerily in their sweet, racial minors, ca out a chorus from fresh,

Aryan throats, in the house south of Meredith's: 'Where, oh where, are the grave old Seniors?

Safe, now, in the wide, orld!"