Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

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Portrait of Mrs. Wilson Woodrow Mrs. Wilson Woodrow The Mystery of the Pink Pieces… (1913)

Nevertheless, they all accepted.
“Doesn't it strike you as odd,” murmured Willy to Rose, as soon as they were alone, “that as soon as one member of our interesting little group decided to go to town for the day, the rest all arrived at the same decision?”
“It may be coincidence,” she said; “but—what do you make of it, Willy?”
“That there are those among us—I wish to goodness I knew who!—who are determined not to let others among us out of their sight. Oh, Rose, if there are not some interesting developments to-morrow I am a false prophet.”
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Portrait of Mrs. Wilson Woodrow Mrs. Wilson Woodrow The Mystery of the Pink Pieces… (1913)

The two of them—mistress and maid—presented a commonplace picture, with no elements of mystery; and Rose, whose taste was for the exotic and picturesque, turned distastefully from the contemplation of them, prosaically enjoying their dinner, to the lovely lady whose poetic profile was more distinctly in the line of her vision.
“A charming creature!” Rose murmured to Willy. “She makes every other woman in the room look provincial.”
“A dry point in black and white by Hallé,” mused Willy. “The high-class adventuress, who models herself upon the women of the great world.
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Portrait of Mrs. Wilson Woodrow Mrs. Wilson Woodrow The Mystery of the Pink Pieces… (1913)

Darrell and Miss MacKenzie, and then Willy bore to Rose news that evidently afforded him vast satisfaction.
“The Fates are with us, Rose,” he exclaimed, when he had signaled her that he had something to tell her, and she had, by various tactful ruses, disencumbered herself of Miss Hodgkins, Ernestine, Prince Ahmed, and all of the little court that invariably gathered around her when she was pleased to make her appearance in public.
“I have some good news,” he said. “Fortune favors the brave. That is either you or me, Rose, take it as you please.”
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