Three Vassar girls in Switzerland . THE GIRL IN THE HADING VEIL. GENEVA. 43 Margaret laughed merrily. Grandpa is so impressionable, sheexplained. The girl in the veil is pretty, but that is all there is toher, — and she has the most dreadful mother. They are Americansliving abroad on their in-come. The father, I inferfrom the mothers interestin business, is no more. How does the widowshow her business facul-ty? Alice asked. She takes the Ameri-can papers and reads thestock quotations while sheeats her breakfast, inter-rupting whatever conver-sation may be going onby such exclamations as Calume
Three Vassar girls in Switzerland . THE GIRL IN THE HADING VEIL. GENEVA. 43 Margaret laughed merrily. Grandpa is so impressionable, sheexplained. The girl in the veil is pretty, but that is all there is toher, — and she has the most dreadful mother. They are Americansliving abroad on their in-come. The father, I inferfrom the mothers interestin business, is no more. How does the widowshow her business facul-ty? Alice asked. She takes the Ameri-can papers and reads thestock quotations while sheeats her breakfast, inter-rupting whatever conver-sation may be going onby such exclamations as Calumet and Heclas up!ered muslin you CALUMET AND HECLA. Now, Betty, you can buy that embroid-Or, The land! Betty. Calumet andHeclas down. Im sorry I ordered that music-box. You describe her very well, said the Judge. Shes somethingof a terror, but shes better than the men. Shes American, at least,and I can understand her; but my Lord Highnose and I havent anotion in common. Is that a real name? Alice asked, much amused. Only a nickname that Margaret has given him. We thought hewas an Englishman; for he is deplorably ignorant in regard toAmerica, and seems to take a positive pride in displaying his igno-rance. He asked me, for instance, if Calumet and Hecla were twonoted race-horses, or Mississippi steamers! And then it came out Cthat he hadnt the excuse of being an Englishman; for he said thathe had been absent from the States so long that he had rather lost t 44 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IN~ SWITZERLAND. the run of affairs. When I told him that Calumet and Hecla was afavorite kind of stock in the market, and that the lady was
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