S.A., commanding the Department of the East,
with headquarters at Governors Island, was one of them. And so
were Colonel Edgerton, Judge Lambert and Mrs. Lambert; and His
Excellency the French Ambassador, whom she had known as an attache
and who was passing through the city and had been overjoyed to
leave a card; as well as Sir Anthony Broadstairs, who expected to
spend a week with her in her quaint home in Geneseo, but who had
made it convenient to pay his respects in Fifteenth Street
instead: to say nothing of the Coleridges, Thomases, Bordeauxs and
Worthing tons, besides any number of people from Washington
Square, with plenty more from Murray Hill and be yond.
Peter in his enthusiasm had made a mental picture of a repetition
of all this and had already voiced it in the suggestion of these
and various other prominent names, "when Miss Felicia stopped him
with:
"No, Peter--No. It's not to be a museum of fossils, but a garden
full of rosebuds; nobody with a strand of gray hair will be
invited. As for the lame, the halt and the blind, they can come
next week.
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