Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . TROPICAL FOLIAGE. ,48 THKLh 1 .\ SOUTH AMERICA. The sirls looked at eaeli other somewhat blankl\-, and Maud tooklier phice elia^rined, and hall inelined to reluse the invitation. TheSenhors boat shot ahead, keeping the lead all the way, and theSenhor could not have exerted himself more to please Victoria thanhe did to gain Mauds good will. But Maud, to use her own ex-pression, was gru
Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . TROPICAL FOLIAGE. ,48 THKLh 1 .\ SOUTH AMERICA. The sirls looked at eaeli other somewhat blankl\-, and Maud tooklier phice elia^rined, and hall inelined to reluse the invitation. TheSenhors boat shot ahead, keeping the lead all the way, and theSenhor could not have exerted himself more to please Victoria thanhe did to gain Mauds good will. But Maud, to use her own ex-pression, was grumpy, and not to be pleased. Suddenly the Sen-hor looked her steadily in the face, and asked, What have I done,Miss Van Vechten, to merit your ill opinion? Was it simple frankness or the height of effrontery? To Maud. MACAWS. it seemed the latter, and she replied stiffly that she was sorr} if shehad been so deficient in good breeding as to treat so polite a hostwith rudeness. *Never mind politeness for the moment, the Senhor remarkedblandly, let us be perfectly sincere. You distrust me. Why is it? Maud was driven into a corner and replied recklessly, Perhaps itis because I am constructed something on the principle of the arma-dillo. My heart is prett} effectually encased in armor, and it wouldbe hard for anyone to touch it. Is it true, then, asked the Senhor^ as I have read, that an VICTORIA REGIA. 149 American girl of the Nortli has * tlie head of a railvva}- president andthe heart of an The author who wrote that did not intend to compliment us, butif it is true, as I imagine, that Esquimaux have very simple, kindlyhearts, like other people, and railway presidents are onl} shrewd calculators of the results of every venture before they allowthemselves to be interested in it,
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