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It was Mrs. Mason who first asked that Paula play; but it was Terrence McFane and Aaron Hancock who evicted1 the rag-time group from the piano and sent Theodore Malken, a blushing ambassador, to escort Paula.
“‘Tis for the confounding of this pagan that I’m askin’ you to play ‘Reflections on the Water,’” Graham heard Terrence say to her.
“And ‘The Girl with Flaxen Hair,’ after, please,” begged Hancock, the indicted2 pagan. “It will aptly prove my disputation. This wild Celt has a bog-theory of music that predates the cave-man—and he has the unadulterated stupidity to call himself ultra-modern.”
“Oh, Debussy!” Paula laughed. “Still wrangling3 over him, eh? I’ll try and get around to him. But I don’t know with what I’ll begin.”
Dar Hyal joined the three sages4 in seating Paula at the concert grand which, Graham decided5, was none too great for the great room. But no sooner was she seated than the three sages slipped away to what were evidently their chosen listening places. The young poet stretched himself prone6 on a deep bearskin forty feet from the piano, his hands buried in his hair. Terrence and Aaron lolled into a cushioned embrasure of a window seat, sufficiently7 near to each other to nudge the points of their respective contentions8 as Paula might expound9 them. The girls were huddled10 in colored groups on wide couches or garlanded in twos and threes on and in the big koa-wood chairs.
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abides
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prelude
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judgment
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masonry
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crassness
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aspires
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doggerel
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vengeance
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labor
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repulsive
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toil
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belly
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plows
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shack
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intrudes
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monstrous
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varied
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distinctive
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