"I

wish you could see the wainscoting in that drawing-room, Joe! And those

Astrakhan rug portieres. And Clementina has such a funny little cough. I hope

she is stronger than she looks. Oh, I really am getting attached to her, she is

so gentle and high bred. Gen. Pinkney's brother was once Minister to

Bolivia."

And

then Joe, with the air of a Monte Cristo, drew forth a ten, a five, a two and a

one--all legal tender notes--and laid them beside Delia's earnings.

"Sold that watercolour of the obelisk to a man from

Peoria," he announced overwhelmingly.

"Don't joke with me," said Delia, "not from Peoria!"

"All the way. I wish you could see him, Dele. Fat man with a

woollen muffler and a quill toothpick. He saw the sketch in Tinkle's window and

thought it was a windmill at first, he was game, though, and bought it anyhow.

He ordered another--an oil sketch of the Lackawanna freight depot--to take back

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