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Florence's selection of Noble Dill for the bright favourite of her dreams was one of her own mysteries Noble was not beautiful, neither did he present to the ordinary eye ofespecially rare, exquisite, unfauished as to be obsolete He was about twenty-two, but not one of those book-read sportse, confident in clothes and manner, easy travellers and debonair; that is to say, Noble was not of the worldly type twenty-two True, he had graduated fro his father's Real Estate and Insurance office, but his geographical experiences (in particular) had been limited to three or four railway excursions, at special rates, to such points of interest as Maan His other experiences were not , and except for the emotions within him, he was in all the qualities of his mind as well as in his bodily contours and the apparel sheltering the latter, the most commonplace person in Florence's visible world The inner areas of the first and second fingers of his left hand bore cigarette stains, seeht hand were strongly orna him aararnitures were not comparable to those of either Newland Sanders or that dapper antique, Mr Ridgely Noble's straw hat htened under the treatment of lemon juice or other restorative; his scarf was folded to hide a spot that worked steadily toward a complete visibility, and some recent efforts upon his trousers with a tepid iron, in his bedchamber at home, counteracted but feebly that tendency of cloth to sculpture itself in hummocks upon repeated pressure of the hu except the expression of Noble's face and the somewhat ill-chosen pansy in his buttonhole hinted of the re for which he was not responsible hiether the work of Julia What her as, in the case of Noble Dill, may be expressed in a word--a word used not only by the whole Atwater fa Noble's condition, but by Noble's own family connection as well This complete as "awful"

Florence was the one exception on the Atwater side: she was far, far froh, until she looked up "uncouth" in Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, she had not found suitable means to describe him And now, as she walked at his side, she found her sensations to be nothing short of thrilling For it must be borne in mind that this was her first and wholly unexpected outburst into society; the experience was that of an obscure aerolite suddenly beconificent--so with her new station in life