Nothing Serious
““Isn’t it lovely!” she said. “Ambrose gave it me for my birthday.”
She passed on, and the guest heaved a moody sigh.
“Once again!” he said. “I’ve never known it to fail. What on earth is the good of Nature turning out girls like that, seeing that before an honest man can put in his bid they have always gone and got an Ambrose attached to them? Or if not an Ambrose, a Jim or a Tim or a Fred or a Ned or a Mike or a Spike or a Percival.
Sometimes I think I shall go into a monastery and get away fr...om it all.”
“You admired my little friend?”
“She is what the doctor ordered.”
“It is odd that you should say that, for she is what the doctor got. She is the wife of our local medicine man, Ambrose Gussett.”
“I’ll bet he isn’t worthy of her.”
“On the contrary. You might say that he married beneath him. He is a scratch, she a mere painstaking eighteen. But then we must remember that until shortly before her marriage she had never touched a golf club. She was a tennis player,”MoreLess
She passed on, and the guest heaved a moody sigh.
“Once again!” he said. “I’ve never known it to fail. What on earth is the good of Nature turning out girls like that, seeing that before an honest man can put in his bid they have always gone and got an Ambrose attached to them? Or if not an Ambrose, a Jim or a Tim or a Fred or a Ned or a Mike or a Spike or a Percival.
Sometimes I think I shall go into a monastery and get away fr...om it all.”
“You admired my little friend?”
“She is what the doctor ordered.”
“It is odd that you should say that, for she is what the doctor got. She is the wife of our local medicine man, Ambrose Gussett.”
“I’ll bet he isn’t worthy of her.”
“On the contrary. You might say that he married beneath him. He is a scratch, she a mere painstaking eighteen. But then we must remember that until shortly before her marriage she had never touched a golf club. She was a tennis player,”MoreLess
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