We Three - Gouverneur Morris

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       Gouverneur Morris

      We Three

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066147365

       "Dark against the light illumination of the hall stood Lucy Fulton" . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

       WE THREE

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       "They met with an honest kiss, like lovers long parted."

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       X

       XI

       "'It's what you and I stood up and promised before a lot of people.'"

       XII

       XIII

       XIV

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       XVII

       XVIII

       XIX

       XX

       XXI

       XXII

       "'You are all that counts . . . you know that.'"

       XXIII

       XXIV

       XXV

       XXVI

       XXVII

       XXVIII

       XXIX

       XXX

       XXXI

       XXXII

       XXXIII

       XXXIV

       XXXV

       Table of Contents

       "They met with an honest kiss, like lovers long parted"

       "It's what you and I stood up and promised before a lot of people"

       "'You are all that counts … you know that'"

       Table of Contents

       Table of Contents

      When I know that Lucy is going to Palm Beach for the winter I shall go to Aiken. When I know that she is going to Aiken, I shall go to Palm Beach. And I shall play the same game with Bar Harbor, Newport, Europe, and other summer resorts. So we shall only meet by accident, and hardly ever. We've been asked not to.

      But I ought to begin further back. It would do no harm to begin at the beginning. There is even a king's advice to that effect. Said the king in "Alice," "Begin at the Beginning, go on to the End, and then stop."

      In the beginning, then: When I was a little boy, old enough to be warned against playing with matches, I began of course to think them desirable playthings, and whenever I got a chance played with them. And I never:

      (1) Set myself on fire,

      (2) Nor anybody else,

      (3) Nor the house in which my parents lived with me.

      And yet I had been told that I should do all of these things; not often perhaps, but certainly every once in a while.

      Of

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