There we shall be
perfectly free and untrammelled by the chains which still hang
around us in Norridgeport. You know how often we have wanted to be
set on some island in the Pacific Ocean, where we could build up a
true society, right from the start. Now, here's a chance to try
the experiment for a few months, anyhow.'
"Eunice clapped her hands (yes, you did!) and cried out--
"`Splendid! Arcadian! I'll give up my school for the summer.'
"Miss Ringtop gave her opinion in another quotation:
"`The rainbow hues of the Ideal
Condense to gems, and form the Real!'
"Abel Mallory, of course, did not need to have the proposal
repeated. He was ready for any thing which promised indulgence,
and the indulgence of his sentimental tastes. I will do the fellow
the justice to say that he was not a hypocrite. He firmly believed
both in himself and his ideas--especially the former. He pushed
both hands through the long wisps of his drab-colored hair,
and threw his head back until his wide nostrils resembled a double
door to his brain.
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