From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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"He draws those."
"Is that what you call pot-boiling?" "One kind." "And I suppose it pays just a pittance." "Well," replied the Bonnie Lassie evasively, "he sticks to it, so it must support him." "Then I'm going to help him." "'To fulfill his destiny,' is the accepted phrase," said the Bonnie Lassie wickedly. "I'll call him in for you to look over. But you'd best leave the arrangements for a later meeting." Being summoned, Julien Tenney entered the house as one quite at home despite his smeary garb of the working artist. His presentation to Miss Holland was as brief as it was formal, for she took her departure at once. "Who is she?" asked Julien, staring after her. "Bobbie Holland, a gilded butterfly from uptown." "What's she doing here?" "Good." |
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