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Roxy darling, dont get too enterprising again.
Do you mind if we forget all of
this and talk about something moreinteresting?
For a time, then, Roxanna was
not offensive.
Mark Twains bumptious rustic, his Innocent Abroad. Sir Henry was
not enfeebled by Roxys impertinence, but angered. And Ill quit picking on your
Mexican sugar pie. Dodsworth was a woman equally kind and efficient.
That
vision, stated Roxanna, you got out of a book.
I like to have your approval,
more thananybodys, even if it is a little qualified and stingy. Youre always
explaining to everybody thatyouve never slipped into wedlock. Do you suppose
for one moment Icould be jealous of a street Arab like your Roxanna? You simply
got to come to my office and help me fix this thingup, besought Lundsgard.
And
worse, you could lose allyour democracy here.
In the evening by the moonlight,
the oldfolks singing!
But Roxanna was not grateful for this implication of
hersuperiority. Ireally dont know how long Ill be here, Dr. Oh, yes, confided
Lundsgard, Ive become quite a buddy of HisHighness and I like . Well all tell
Sir Henry that Roxanna is hysterical. If I dont see you again, Miss Eldritch,
Ihope you will have a very enjoyable journey to Rome. Its so simple and
tremendous that their meanlittle minnows of souls cant stand the glory!
Ive had
somedoggone beautiful, rich women ask me for an autograph! Avinegary, sexless,
flat-chested old maid carting you around totearooms and reading Ruskin aloud! A
non-royal prince is not a Highness, Roxy cackled.
Roxanna might, he thought
uncomfortably, be right.
He knows you arent tied by alot of bum traditions.
Instantly she rose to her passionate affection of the past, crying,No!
Maybe
theyd stay herefor years, too, if theyd inherited a wad of money.
He was
hatless, hisheroic head well back and his flaxen hair a coronet. Golly, thats a
lot of man in one consignment, sighed Roxanna.
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