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Ptomaine Street by Carolyn Wells
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Gullion, who discoursed on the Current Trend of Current Bolshe Vikings.

The refreshing episode consisted of champagne and Saratoga chips.



CHAPTER VIII


The Restless Sexteen was the record altitude of Butterfly Center. It was
the elect and select of the intellect; it was the whole show--the very
Wholly of Whollies. To belong to it was canonization. Though some of its
members also belonged to the Toddletopsis Club, it meant their leading a
double life.

The Restless Sexteen were mostly young married women with their husbands
as nonresident members.

They studied higher psychology and broader psychopathy. The wrestled with
and threw Einstein and let themselves dream again with Freud.
Psychoanalysis was their washpot, and over the fourth dimension did they
cast their shoes.

Their afternoon digest was held at Faith Loveman's and Warble went.

The Loveman home was an abstract bungalow, which showed rather plainly the
iron hand in the velvet glove influence of the Japanese.

The large light hall had a built-in abstract table, and on this was an
enormous bronze plaque which held a thin layer of water on which rested
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