"My sweet
sister, Alice, I love you now, and I always shall love you, and I think
my brother Quincy is just the luckiest man in the world to get such a
nice wife."
Then abashed at her own vehemance, she got behind Aunt Ella, who said to
herself, "Maude has got some heart."
Dinner was announced. The Hon. Nathaniel Adams Sawyer offered his arm to
Mrs. Quincy Adams Sawyer, and they led the holiday procession. Sir
Stuart Fernborough, M.P., escorted Mrs. Sarah Quincy Sawyer; next came
Mr. Leopold Ernst and Miss Linda Fernborough Chessman, followed by Mr.
Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mrs. Leopold Ernst; behind them walked, arm in
arm, Mrs. Ella Quincy Chessman and Mdme. Rose Archimbault; while
bringing up the rear came the Misses Florence Estelle and Maude Gertrude
Sawyer. Maude had politely offered her arm to Florence, but the latter
had firmly declined to accept it. In this order they entered the
gorgeous dining-room and took their places at a table bearing evidences
of the greatest wealth, if not the greatest refinement, to partake of
their Christmas dinner.
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