New-York tribune., 1918-03-03

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l. l. mother, and Corey pulled UP another
trestle which he found in the back part of
the ROOM The first foorings had been laid
throughout the house and the partitions had
been lathed so that one could realize the
shape of the interior.
81 suppose you will sit at this window a
good deal" said the young man.
Eyes. think it will be very nice. There's
so much more going than there is in the
Square"
at must be very interesting to you to see
the house grow
at is. Only it doesn't seem to grow so fast
ss l expected
"Why, I'm amazed at the progress your
carpenter has made every time l come
The girl looked down, and then lifting her
eyes she said, with sort of timorous appeal:
1--WE been reading that book since you were
dcwn at Nantasket."
Book" repeated Corey, while she red
denec with disappointment. ooh, yes. Mid
liemarch Did you like to"
81 haven't got through with it yet. Pen
has finished it,
What does she think of it ?"
"Oh, think she likes it very well. l
haven't heard her talk about it much. Do
you like it?'
'Yes, l liked it immensely. But it's sew
aral years since | read It,.
II didn't know it was old. It's just got
mo the Seaside Library she urged, with a
little sense of injury in her tone.
"Oh. it hasn't been out such very great
WHILE" said Corey, politely. at came little
Lefore Daniel Deronda.'"
The girl was again silent. She followed the
curl of shaving the floor with the point
of her parasol.
DO you like that Rosamond Vincy?" she
asked, without looking up
Corey smiled in his kind way
Il didn't suppose she expected TO have
my friends. l can't say l liked her. But 1
don't think l dslked her so much as the
author does. She's pretty hard on her good
looking''-he was going to say girls, but as
# that might have been rather personal, he
said-"people.'
Yes, that's what Pen says. She says she
doesn't give her any chance to be good. She
gays she should have been just bad as
Eosamond if she had been in her place"
The young man laughed. Your sister is
very satirical, isn't she?
II don't know said Irene, still intent upon
the convolutions of the shaving. "She keeps
Us laughing Papa thinks there's nobody that
can talk like her. She gave the shaving a
little toss from her and took the parasol up
across her lap. The unworldliness of the
Iapham girls did not extend to their dress
irene's costume was very stylish, and she
governed her head and shoulders stylshly
We are going to have the back room up
Ftairs for music room and library" she
aid abruptly.
NES?" returned Corey. "l should think
l. that would be charming
Eve expected to have bookcases, but the
.rehitect wants to build the shelves in
The fact seemed to be referred to Corey
FOR his comment
at seems to me that would be the best
say. They'll look like part of the room then
You can make them low, and hang your pict-
ures above them"
Eyes, that's what he said" The girl looked
out of the window in adding, ~ presume
with nice bindings it will look very well'
"Oh, nothing furnishes a room like books.
mo. There will have to be good many
Of them"
"That depends upon the size of your room
and the number of your shelves"
"Oh, of course! I presume said Irene
-houghtfully, "we shall have to have Gibbon.'
"If you want to read him." said Corey
With laugh Of sympathy for an imaginable
oke.
I've had great deal about him at school
believe we had one of his books. Mines
.ost, but Pen will remember"
The young man looked at her, and ther
aid, seriously, you'll want Greene, Of
curse, and Motley, and Parkman."
"Yes What kind of writer's are they?"
They're historians, too
"Oh, yes; l remember now That's wha
Gibbon Is it Gibbon or Gibbons"
The young decided the point with ap
,arently superfuous deicacy. "Gibbon,
.hink"
"There used to be so many of them" sait
Irene gaily. 81 used to get them mixed uy
With each other, and couldn't tell then
sror. the poets. Should you want to hav,
poetry"
"Yes; suppose some edition of the Eng
.ish poets"
Eve don't any Of US like poetry DO 20,
ike it?"
I'm afraid don't very much" Core,
,wned "But, OF course, there was tim
shen Tennyson was a great deal more t,
ne than he Is now"
I'VE had something about him at school
90. / think ! remember the name I thin,
re ought 70 have all the American poets"
"Well, not all. Five or six Of the best
you want Longfellow and Bryant and Whit
tier and Holmes and Emerson and Lowell -
The girl listened attentiyely, as Il maxim,
mental note of the names
"AnG Shakespeare, she added "Don't yo
ike shakespeares plays?'
"Ch, yes, very much"
II used TO be perfectly ceazy about hi
plays Don't you think Hamlet is splendid
We had ever 80 much about Shakespeare
Weren't you perfectly aston.shed whcn yo,
ound out how many other plays Of his ther
1ere? always thought there was nothin,
,ut Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. an.
Macbeth and Richard IIr and King Lear
md that that RobeSon and Crane have
III, yes, COMEDY Of Errors.'"
"Thoxe are the ones they usually play
said Corey
sGT PRESUME we shall have to hay.
L scotts works" said Irene, returning
10 the auction Of bookz