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"Try him."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that Peter Stirling won't give a raparee for all the society you
can give him."
"You don't know what you are talking about."
But Lispenard was right. Peter had enjoyed the dinner at Miss De Voe's
and the evening at Mr. Le Grand's. Yet each night on reaching his rooms,
he had sat long hours in his straight office chair, in the dark. He was
thinking of what Miss Leroy had told him of--of--He was not thinking of
"Society."


CHAPTER XXVIII.
COMMISSIONS.

Peter made his dinner call at Miss De Voe's, but did not find her at
home. He received a very pleasant letter expressing her regret at
missing him, and a request to lunch with her two days later, and to go
with some friends to an afternoon piano recital, "if you care for music.
If not, merely lunch with us." Peter replied that he was very sorry, but
business called him to Albany on that day.
"I really regret it," said Miss De Voe to Dorothy. "It is getting so
late in the season, that unless he makes his call quickly, I shall
hardly be able to give him more than one other chance.


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