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an read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN IMPOSSIBLE MAN " We must have Trixy Marsden on the Thursday,"?for Mrs. Leslie was arranging two dinner parties. " She will be in her element that evening; but what are we to do with Mr. Marsden ...(展开全部)
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AN IMPOSSIBLE MAN " We must have Trixy Marsden on the Thursday,"?for Mrs. Leslie was arranging two dinner parties. " She will be in her element that evening; but what are we to do with Mr. Marsden ? " " Isn't it rather the custom to invite a husband with his wife ? he might even expect to be included," said John Leslie. " Do you know I'm glad we came to Putney; spring is lovely in the garden." " Never mind spring just now," as Leslie threatened an exit to the lawn; " you might have some consideration for an afflicted hostess, and give your mind to the Marsden problem." " It was Marsden brought spring into my mind," and Leslie sat down with that expression of resignation on his face peculiar to husbands consulted on domestic affairs; " he was telling me this morning in the train that he had just finished a table of trees in the order of their budding, a sort of spring priority list; his love for statistics is amazing. " He is getting to be known on the 9 train; the men keep their eye on him and bolt into thirds to escape; he gave a morning on the influenza death- rate lately, and that kind of thing spreads. " But he's not a bad fellow for all that," concluded Leslie; " he's perfectly straight in business, and that is saying something; I rather enjoy half an hour with him." " Very likely you do," said his wife with impatience, " because your mind has a squint, and you get amusement out of odd people; but every one has not your taste for the tiresome. He is enough to devastate a dinner table; do you remember that escapade of his last year? " " You mean when he corrected you about the length of the American passage, and gave the sailings of the Atlantic liners since '80," and Leslie lay back to enjoy the past: " it seemed to me most instructive, and every one ... [ 收起 ]
