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ARABY
BY
Baroness von Hutten
The Smart Set Publishing Co. New York London
COPYRIGHTED March, 1902, by ESS ESS PUBLISHING CO
COPYRIGHTED 1904, by THE SMART SET PUBLISHING CO
First Printing in MARCH
CONTENTS
I. A MARMOSET
II. YELVERTON IS REMEMBERED
III. OF ARABY AND MRS. COPELAND
IV. IN THE STEERAGE
V. "PADDY"
VI. TWO ON DECK
VII. AT GIBRALTAR
VIII. MAL DE MER
IX. ROCK ISLAND CURIOSITY
X. ARABY ASKS A QUESTION
XI. LOST LIBERTY
XII. CHAMPAGNE FOR ONE
XIII. ADVICE TO JOE C
XIV. HIGH WORDS
XV. FOUNTAIN CONSULTED
XVI. AND THE LAST
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"As a weed
Flung from the rock, on ocean's foam to sail
Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail."
Byron.
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A MARMOSET
"A STRING. At one end of the string Fluffy Daddies, at the other end Araby!"
T. H. Howard Bax-Drury looked down his long nose and smiled. Mrs. Copeland looked up her short nose and smiled, too. What a difference there is between one smile and another! Bax-Drury 's drew his thin, rather well-cut lips neatly back over a row of even white and gold teeth, hardly deranging his heavy mustache. Mrs. Copeland's smile was a flash, a glimpse, a pair of dimples, a shiver of eyelids a thing over in a second, but long to be remembered.
They stood leaning on the rail, behind them Genoa, opalescent in a sea-mist; before them the usual uninteresting crowd of fellow-passengers, fellow-sufferers worst, fellow-feeders. Coming by the Southern route had been a freak of Mrs. Copeland, and a minute before, as she viewed those with whom she