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Title: We Three

Author: Gouverneur Morris

Illustrator: Henry Hutt

Release Date: June 21, 2007 [EBook #21883]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "Dark against the light illumination of the hall stood
Lucy Fulton."]

WE THREE

BY

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS

AUTHOR OF THE SEVEN DARLINGS, ETC

ILLUSTRATED BY

HENRY HUTT

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1913, 1916, BY THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Dark against the light illumination of the hall
stood Lucy Fulton" . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"They met with an honest kiss, like lovers long parted"

"It's what you and I stood up and promised before
a lot of people"

"'You are all that counts . . . you know that'"

WE THREE

I

When I know that Lucy is going to Palm Beach for the winter I shall go
to Aiken. When I know that she is going to Aiken, I shall go to Palm
Beach. And I shall play the same game with Bar Harbor, Newport,
Europe, and other summer resorts. So we shall only meet by accident,
and hardly ever. We've been asked not to.

But I ought to begin further back. It would do no harm to begin at the
beginning. There is even a king's advice to that effect. Said the
king in "Alice," "Begin at the Beginning, go on to the End, and then
stop."

In the beginning, then: When I was a little boy, old enough to be
warned against playing with matches, I began of course to think them
desirable playthings, and whenever I got a chance played with them.
And I never:

(1) Set myself on fire,

(2) Nor anybody else,

(3) Nor the house in which my parents lived with me.

And yet I had been told that I should do all of these things; not often
perhaps, but certainly every once in a while.

Of course it is possible to do all sorts of things with a match. You
may light it and blow it out, for instance. Lighted, you may put it in
your mouth without bu