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31.<br />
NARRATOR (cont’d)<br />
for that lady’s private ear. She<br />
was not much afraid of Ellie alone,<br />
but Ellie and Nelson together<br />
formed an incalculable menace. No<br />
one could tell what spark of truth<br />
might dash from their collision.<br />
Susy felt that she could deal with<br />
the two dangers separately and<br />
successively, but not together and<br />
simultaneously,<br />
She leaned over, and a tall gentleman in shabby clothes,<br />
CHARLIE STREFFORD glancing up at her as he jumped out of the<br />
gondola, waved a moldy Panama in joyful greeting.<br />
SUSY<br />
(exclaimed joyfully)<br />
Streffy!<br />
She was half-way down the stairs when he ran up them<br />
followed by his luggage-laden boatman.<br />
STREFFY<br />
(British accent)<br />
It’s all right, I suppose?-Ellie<br />
said I might come,<br />
(shrill cheerful voice)<br />
And I’m to have my same green room<br />
with the parrot-panels, because its<br />
furniture is already so frightfully<br />
stained with my hair-wash.<br />
Susy was beaming on him with the deep sense of satisfaction<br />
which his presence always produced in his friends.<br />
Strefford was English with all the strength of an inveterate<br />
habit; and something in Susy was slowly waking to a sense of<br />
the beauty of habit.<br />
NARRATOR<br />
There was no one in the world, they<br />
all agreed, half as ugly and untidy<br />
and delightful as Streffy; no one<br />
who combined such outspoken<br />
selfishness with such imperturbable<br />
good humor; no one who knew so well<br />
how to make you believe he was<br />
being charming to you when it was<br />
you who were being charming to him.<br />
Lounging on the balcony, whither he had followed her without<br />
pausing to remove the stains of travel, Strefford showed
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