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"How dreadful, to have to be chaperoned!" ejaculated Joe. "But Mrs.
Wyndham is very jolly after all, so it does not much matter."
"I believe they used to have Germans here without any mothers," remarked
Sybil, "but they never do now."
"Poor little things, how awfully lonely for them!" laughed Joe.
"Who?"
"The Germans--without their mothers. Oh, I forgot the German was the
cotillon. You mean cotillons, without tapestry, as we say."
"Yes, exactly. But about the skating party. It will be very select, you
know; just ourselves. You know I never go out," Sybil added rather sadly,
"but I do love skating so."
"Who are 'ourselves'--exactly?"
"Why, you and I, and the Sam Wyndhams, and the Aitchison girls, and Mr.
Topeka, and Mr. Harrington, and Mr. Vancouver--let me see--and Miss St.
Joseph, and young Hannibal. He is very nice, and is very attentive to Miss
St. Joseph."
"Is it nice, like that, skating about in couples?" asked Joe.
"No; that is the disagreeable part; but the skating is delicious.


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