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"Then I will ice the canvas-backs and champagne and dust off the
Burgundy for that day, if your mamma accedes."
"Peter, I wanted to ask you the other day about that. I thought you
didn't drink wine."
"I don't. But I give my friends a glass, when they are good enough to
come to me. I live my own life, to please myself, but for that very
reason, I want others to live their lives to please themselves. Trying
to live other people's lives for them, is a pretty dog-in-the-manger
business."
Just then Mrs. D'Alloi joined them. "Were you able to translate it?" she
asked, sitting down by them.
"Yes, indeed," said Leonore. "It means 'Towards the right side,' or as a
motto it might be translated, 'For the right side.'"
Mrs. D'Alloi had clearly, to use a western expression, come determined
to "settle down and grow up with the country." So Peter broached the
subject of the dinner, and when she hesitated, Leonore called Watts into
the group. He threw the casting ballot in favor of the dinner, and so it
was agreed upon.


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