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that table, too, Jenifer had spread himself. How good that breakfast
was! What a glorious September day it was! How beautiful the view of the
city and the bay was! It was all so thoroughly satisfactory, that the
three nearly missed the "limited." Of course Peter went to the station
with them, and, short as was the time, he succeeded in obtaining for one
of the party, "all the comic papers," "the latest novel," a small basket
of fruit, and a bunch of flowers, not one of which, with the exception
of the latter, the real object of these attentions wanted in the least.
Just here it is of value to record an interesting scientific discovery
of Leonore's, because women so rarely have made them. It was, that the
distance from New York to Newport is very much less than the distance
from Newport to New York.
Curiously enough, two days later, his journey seemed to Peter the
longest railroad ride he had ever taken. "His friend" did not meet him
this time. His friend felt that her trip to New York must be offset
before she could resume her proper self-respect.
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