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Excerpt from The Man Who Lived in a Shoe
Time out of mind we have been friends, Gertrude and I, as our mothers had been before us. She, the highly modern spinster and I, such as I am, have been linked for years by an engagement which is not an engagement in the old sense at all. It is a sort of entente cordiale. An engagement in the conventional meaning of the word would be as abhorrent to Gertrude as the old-fashioned marriage. As soon would she think of being given in marriage with bell, book and orange blossoms as of calling herself Mrs. Randolph Byr - or anything but Miss Bayard.
That is what we have been discussing this gloomy afternoon in my snug little apartment before a garrulous fire. For Gertrude is not so absurd as to hesitate to call on me at my apartment any more than I would hesi tate to call on her in Gramercy Park.
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