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"I like it," said Joe. "I like the heat so much that I think I should be
cold in Newport. Tell me all about what you have been doing."
"Oh, I hardly know," said Ronald. "Lots of things."
"Tell me what you do in one day--yesterday, for instance. I want to be
amused this morning."
"It is not so very amusing, you know, but it is very jolly," answered
Ronald. "To begin with, I get up at unholy hours and go and bathe in the
surf at the second beach. There are no end of a a lot of people there even
at that hour."
"Yes, I dare say. And then?"
"Oh, then I go home and dress: and later, if I do not ride, I go to the
club--casino, I beg its pardon!--and play tennis. They play very decently,
some of those fellows."
"Are there any nice rides?"
"Just along the roads, you know. But when you get out to Sherwood there
are meadows and things--with a brook. That is very fair."
"Do you still go to Sherwood often? How is Sybil?"
"Yes," said Ronald, and a blush rose quickly to his face, "I often go
there.
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