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[[strikethrough]] Multicols [[/strikethrough]] Canoes of many colors, graceful in lines peaceful in color, sheltered in the [[/strikethrough]] pebbly [[/strikethrough]] pebbly beach under shadows of green foliage. Girls watching camp fires. [[underlined in red]] Others dancing [[/underlined in red]] [[strikethrough]] this is Arcadia! [[/strikethrough]] Drinking out of their hands from [[underlined in red]] gushing springs. [[/underlined in red]] Others trying to swim, [[strikethrough]] coo [[/strikethrough]] under guidance of their boy loved. [[strikethrough]] B [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] This is Arcadia! [[/underlined in red]] - Yes Arcadia and yet so near [[strikethrough]] New [[/strikethrough]] prosaic New York and nobody seems to know of its existence. Here is that beautiful [[underlined in red]] waterfall [[/underlined in red]] opposite that part of the Eastern shore where we used to live in that happy little home of Valentine's Lane [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined in red]] seventeen years ago - Seventeen years ago, [[/underlined in red]] George
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[[margin vertical]] Vacation! [[/margin]]
and Nina small little tots then! and [[underlined in red]] life then seemed to take a new turn for us. We were free from debts [[/undelined in red]] and the [[underlined in red]] Velox [[/underlined in red]] enterprise seemed to assure us some modest prosperity! So little then was more than we dared to expect. and yet how trivial to what we have now - [[underlined in red]] except. -- except. [[/underlined in red]] we are seventeen years older and [[underlined in red]] used to prosperity. A prosperity so much [[strikethrough]] bigge [[/strikethrough]] greater than anything we dared dream of [[/underlined in red]] then. - Our yearly expenses now so much bigger than anything we [[underlined in red]] would have dared to conceive then as a possible income. [[/underlined in red]] - and honors and honors and recognition. And [[underlined in red]] yet I feel sometimes in a kicking mood and dissatisfied. following the example of the