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Mrs. Welland surveyed her son-in-law affectionately. ``No one can say, Newland, that you and May are not giving Ellen a handsome send-off.''
``Ah, well,'' said Mrs. Archer, ``I understand May's wanting her cousin to tell people abroad that we're not quite barbarians.''
``I'm sure Ellen will appreciate it. She was to arrive this morning, I believe. It will make a most charming last impression. The evening before sailing is usually so dreary,'' Mrs. Welland cheerfully continued.
Archer turned toward the door, and his mother-in-law called to him: ``Do go in and have a peep at the table. And don't let May tire herself too much.'' But he affected not to hear, and sprang up the stairs to his library. The room looked at him like an alien countenance composed into a polite grimace; and he perceived that it had been ruthlessly ``tidied,'' and prepared, by a judicious distribution of ash-trays and cedar-wood boxes, for the gentlemen to smoke in.
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