Such facilities, even if they scarcely equaled a
chateau on the Ridge or a villa among the Dunes, might serve.
Cope, on his own way to dinner, indulged in parallel imaginings. He saw a
larger room than his present, with more furniture and better; a bookcase
instead of a shelf; a closet, and hot and cold water in some convenient
alcove; a second table, with a percolator on it, at which Arthur, who was a
light sleeper and willingly an early riser, might indulge his knack for
coffee-making to the advantage of them both. And Arthur had the same
blessed facility with toast.
Then his thoughts made an excursion toward Randolph. Here was a man who was
in business in the city, and who was related, by marriage, to the board of
trustees. How soon might one feel sufficiently well acquainted with him to
ask his friendly offices in behalf of the new-comer,--the man who might
reasonably be expected the first week in January?
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_COPE DINES AGAIN--AND STAYS AFTER_
Medora Phillips' social activities ran through several social strata and
her entertainments varied to correspond. Sometimes she contented herself
with mere boy-and-girl affairs, which were thrown together from material
gathered within her own household and from the humbler walks of
undergraduate life.
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