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in her eyes," sentimentalized Annie Pore.

      "Isn't it a pity they are so old?" deplored Dee. "His hair is real grey."

      "It's trouble that has done it," said Mary. "I wondered, Dum, you didn't get off that verse on him about the voice of the lobster. Maybe that would have been too personal:

      "'Tis the voice of the lobster, I heard him declare,

      'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.'

      As a duck with his eyelids, so he with his nose,

      Trims his belt and his buttons and turns out his toes.'

      It would have been rather personal because Mr. Gordon's hair does look rather sugared and certainly Miss Cox has baked him pretty brown."

      "What do you s'pose your Cousin Park Garnett would say, Page, if she knew that our chaperone for the house party had gone and got herself as good as engaged the very second evening?" laughed Dee.