FALSE DAWN
would not admit that there were mosquitoes at High Point.
The strawberries came from Mr. Raycie's kitchen garden; the Georgian bowl came from his great-grandfather (father of the Signer); the verandah was that of his country-house, which stood on a height above the Sound, at a convenient driving distance from his town house in Canal Street.
"Another glass. Commodore," said Mr. Raycie, shaking out a cambric handkerchief the size of a table-cloth, and applying a corner of it to his steaming brow.
Mr. Jameson Ledgely smiled and took
another glass. He was known as "the
Commodore" among his intimates because
of having been in the Navy in his youth,
and having taken part, as a midshipman
under Admiral Porter, in the war of 1812.
This jolly sunburnt bachelor, whose face
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