Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


"There are only the three of us for once, thank goodness," Paula
cried, seizing Dick and Graham by the hands and leading them toward
Dick's favorite lounging couch in the big room. "Come, let us sit upon
the ground and tell sad stories of the deaths of kings. Come, milords,
and lordly perishers, and we will talk of Armageddon when the last sun
goes down."


She was in a merry mood, and with surprise Dick observed her light a
cigarette. He could count on his fingers the cigarettes she had smoked
in a dozen years, and then, only under a hostess's provocation to give
countenance to some smoking woman guest. Later, when he mixed a
highball for himself and Graham, she again surprised him by asking him
to mix her a "wee" one.

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