Chapter 1 (Volume 1 Book 1)
_ VOLUME I. BOOK FIRST. CHAPTER I.
"Olive will come down in about ten minutes； she told me to tell you
that. About ten； that is exactly like Olive. Neither five nor fifteen,
and yet not ten exactly, but either nine or eleven. She didn‘t tell me
to say she was glad to see you, because she doesn‘t know whether she is
or not, and she wouldn‘t for the world expose herself to telling a fib.
She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor； she is full of rectitude.
Nobody tells fibs in Boston； I don‘t know what to make of them all.
Well, I am very glad to see you, at any rate."
These words were spoken with much volubility by a fair, plump, smiling
woman who entered a narrow drawing-room in which a visitor, kept waiting
for a few moments, was already absorbed in a book. The gentleman had not
even needed to sit down to become interested: apparently he had taken up
the volume from a table as soon as he came in, and, standing there,
after a single glance

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