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Gouverneur Morris
We Three
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066147365
Table of Contents
"They met with an honest kiss, like lovers long parted."
"'It's what you and I stood up and promised before a lot of people.'"
"'You are all that counts . . . you know that.'"
"Dark against the light illumination of the hall stood Lucy Fulton" … … … … Frontispiece
"They met with an honest kiss, like lovers long parted"
"It's what you and I stood up and promised before a lot of people"
"'You are all that counts … you know that'"
WE THREE
I
When I know that Lucy is going to Palm Beach for the winter I shall go to Aiken. When I know that she is going to Aiken, I shall go to Palm Beach. And I shall play the same game with Bar Harbor, Newport, Europe, and other summer resorts. So we shall only meet by accident, and hardly ever. We've been asked not to.
But I ought to begin further back. It would do no harm to begin at the beginning. There is even a king's advice to that effect. Said the king in "Alice," "Begin at the Beginning, go on to the End, and then stop."
In the beginning, then: When I was a little boy, old enough to be warned against playing with matches, I began of course to think them desirable playthings, and whenever I got a chance played with them. And I never:
(1) Set myself on fire,
(2) Nor anybody else,
(3) Nor the house in which my parents lived with me.
And yet I had been told that I should do all of these things; not often perhaps, but certainly every once in a while.
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