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[Zuppa <na...@se...>]

I told Mr. Larramie that it was now necessary for me to hurry on, and
asked if there were not some way to the hotel which would not make it
necessary for me to go back to the main road. The good gentleman fairly
shouted at me. "You aren't going to any hotel!" he declared. "Do you
suppose we are heathens, to let you start off at this late hour in the
afternoon for a hotel? You have nothing to do with hotels--you spend the
night with us, sir! If you are thinking about your clothes, pray dismiss
the subject from your mind. If it will make you feel better satisfied,
we will all put on golf suits. In the morning we will get your machine
from the Holly Sprig, and when you want to go on we will send you and it
to Waterton in a wagon. It is not a long drive, and it is much the
pleasanter way to manage your business." The family showed themselves
delighted when they heard that I was to spend the night with them, and I
did not object to the plan, for I had not the slightest desire to go to
a summer hotel. Just before I went up to my room to get ready for
supper, the young Genevieve came to me upon the porch. "Would you mind,"
she said, "letting me feel your muscle?" Very much surprised, I reached
out my arm for her inspection, and she clasped her long thin fingers
around my _biceps flexor cubiti._ Apparently, the inspection was very
satisfactory to her. "I would give anything," she said, "if I had muscle
like that!" I laughed heartily. "My dear little girl," said I, "you
would be sorry, indeed, if you had anything of the sort. When you grow
up and go to parties, how would you like to show bare arms shaped like
mine? You would be a spectacle, indeed." "Well," said she, "perhaps you
are right. I might