She may
bring her husband if she likes, but she needn't bring you. I shall see
plenty of you later."
CHAPTER 4
Mrs. Ludlow was the eldest of the three sisters, and was usually
thought the most sensible; the classification being in general that
Lilian was the practical one, Edith the beauty and Isabel the
"intellectual" superior. Mrs. Keyes, the second of the group, was
the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our
history is not further concerned with her it will suffice that she was
indeed very pretty and that she formed the ornament of those various
military stations, chiefly in the unfashionable West, to which, to her
deep chagrin, her husband was successively relegated. Lilian had
married a New York lawyer, a young man with a loud voice and an
enthusiasm for his profession; the match was not brilliant, any more
than Edith's, but Lilian had occasionally been spoken of as a young
woman who might be thankful to marry at all- she was so much plainer
than her sisters. She was, however, very happy, and now, as the mother
of two peremptory little boys and the mistress of a wedge of brown
stone violently driven into Fifty-third Street, seemed to exult in her
condition as in a bold escape.
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