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166 A SOCIAL METEOR. CHAPTER XII. GEORGIE’S FAREWELL NOTE. They found Ray and Jack already up stairs. She had thrown herself into the nearest chair, and he stood leaning against the mantel. She was idly pulling her flowers to pieces as they came in. : “Only think, my dear,’ she began in a loud voice, “we actually got back safe and sound, much to my surprise, for I fully expected to be dashed into ‘kingdom come,’ twenty times before we reached here. The way that man drove was a caution. Rattlety-bang on this side, rattlety- bang on that, at the rate of fifty knots an hour. I never went so fast in my life. It was ridiculous to attempt to drive through the snow, perfectly absurd. Sleighs are ever so much nicer and far less dangerous. Have you any objection to my indulging in a cigarette, cherie? You know I haven’t had one to-day, and Mr. Nelson says he thinks 1t very cute fora woman to smoke, if she Gomichbooks.ecom