Bab: a Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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"I have a suit of Clothes you can have."
"Thanks awfully," he said. "But from the slight acquaintance we have had, I don't beleive they would fit me." "Gentleman's Clothes," I said fridgidly. "You have?" "In my Studio," I said. "I can bring them, if you like. They look quite good, although Creased." "You know" he said, after a moment's silence, "I can't quite beleive this is realy happening to me! Go and bring the suit of clothes, and--you don't happen to have a cigar, I suppose?" "I have a large box of Cigarettes." "It is true," I heard him say through the door. "It is all true. I am here, locked in. The Play is almost done. And a very young lady on the doorstep is offering me a suit of Clothes and Tobaco. I pinch myself. I am awake." Alas! Mingled with my joy at serving my Ideal there was also greif. My idle had feet of clay. He was a slave, like the rest of us, to his body. He required clothes and tobaco. I felt that, before long, he might even ask for an apple, or something to stay the pangs of hunger. This I felt I could not bare. Perhaps I would better pass over quickly the events of the next hour. I |
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