Indiscretions of Archie

visiting Englishmen almost invariably incline to extremes, either detesting all that therein is or else becoming enthusiasts on the subject of the country, its climate, and its institutions. Archie

t appealed to him. There were moments when it seemed to him as though New York had si

nsistently unfriendly. Indeed, his manner towards his new relative became daily more and more a manner which would have caused gossip on the plantation if Simon Legree had exhibited it in his relations with Uncle Tom. And this in spite of the fact that Archie, as early as the third morn

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"the more I see of you, the more I wonder how you can have a father like-I mean to say, what

said Lucille, "would be if you got som

morn to dewy eve, on the subject of a mistake in his figures; and, if he loved him, he dissembled it all right. Of course, I admit that so far I haven't b

u could only find something to do, it doesn't

He was strongly of the opinion that any change in his father-in-law must inevitably be for the better

er of so many clubs of various kinds that he had not time to go to them all. There were the fashionable clubs along Fifth Avenue to which his friend Reggie van Tuyl, son of his Florida hostess, had introduced him. There were the businessmen's clubs of which he was made free by more solid citizens. And, best

onfiding some of his ambitions to qualify as the hero of

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leading lilies of the field," he sai

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