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id="page_037"/> telling of dreams—a habit so common at breakfast, you know. I thought I would just mention it.”
Eve gave another abrupt laugh. “Do you fear I am going to tell her mine? She would not find them all of sugar.”
“I did not mean yours especially. She has such a curious way of shutting her teeth when people begin—such pretty little white teeth as they are, too, dear child! And she doesn’t like reading aloud either.”
“That must be a deprivation to you,” said Eve, her tone more kindly.
“It is. I have always been extremely fond of it. Are you familiar with Milton? His ‘Comus’?”
“‘Sabrina fair, listen where thou art sitting?” quoted Eve, smiling.
“Yes.
”‘Sabrina fair, listen where thou art sitting,
Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of lilies knitting—’”
said the Southern lady in her murmurous voice. “You don’t know what a pleasure it has always been to me that I am named Sabrina. The English originated ‘Comus;’ I like the English, they are so cultivated.”
“Do you see many of them here?”
“Not many. I am sorry to say my father does not like them; he thinks them affected.”
“That is the last thing I should call them.”
“Well, those who come here really do say ‘serpents’ and ’crocodiles.’”