EBOOK A FEW SHORT SKETCHES ***
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A Few
Short Sketches
By Douglass Sherley
Printed by
John P. Morton & Co.
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
MDCCCXCIII
COPYRIGHTED BY DOUGLASS SHERLEY,
1892
THOSE RUSSIAN VIOLETS
TO
LADY VIOLET
I
THOSE RUSSIAN VIOLETS
There had been a brilliant reception at the house of Mrs. Adrian Colburn
in honor of her guest--a most attractive young woman--from the East. The
hours were brief, from five to seven. I had gone late and left early, but
while there had made an engagement with Miss Caddington for the large ball
to be given that night by the Boltons.
Miss Caddington was a _debutante_. She had been educated abroad, but had
not lost either love of country or naturalness of manner. During the short
but fiercely gay season from October to Christmas she had made many
friends, and found that two or three lovers were hard to handle with much
credit to herself or any real happiness to them.
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