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Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902

"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"

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So the scenes were shifted, and they all sat and chatted till Dennis
left. Then the necessary papers were brought in and looked over at
Peter's study-table, and Miss D'Alloi took another of his pens. Peter
hoped she'd stop and think a little, again, but she didn't. Just as she
had begun an L she hesitated, however.
"Why," she said, "this paper calls me 'Leonore D'Alloi, spinster!' I'm
not going to sign that."
"That is merely the legal term," Peter explained. Leonore pouted for
some time over it, but finally signed. "I shan't be a spinster, anyway,
even if the paper does say so," she said.
Peter agreed with her.
"See what a great blot I've made on your clean blotter," said Leonore,
who had rested the pen-point there. "I'm very sorry." Then she wrote on
the blotter, "Leonore D'Alloi. Her very untidy mark." "That was what
Madame Mellerie always made me write on my exercises."
Then they said "Good-bye." "I like down-town New York better and
better," said Leonore.
So did Peter.


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