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It seems mean to find such a thing amusing, but James does. He feels a bit sorry for Con, in fact - he would not want to spend a day trying on clothes and hats and boots and gloves, even if it did mean he could spend the day alone with his kind, beautiful momma.
He lets Julia tell him everything she and Mrs Godwin did that day, as well as what they ate for lunch, where they ate it, and the fact that the waiter looked like the father of one of her friend Caroline Watterson from school. But of course it was not him - Julia's friend's father is a banker who works downtown, and if he were a waiter, he could not afford to send his daughter to Julia's school.
"Perhaps he has a long-lost brother," James suggests, "who is working in a restaurant not knowing that his brother is a banker in the very same city."
Julia seems to consider this. "Perhaps. A long-lost twin, separated at birth by a greedy midwife who could not have children of her own, and who did not tell their mother that she was carrying twins. Each of them always wanted a brother as he was growing up. And little do they know that they each have a brother, and moreover grew up in the same city. Perhaps the waiter lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children, one of whom is a daughter Caroline's age."
( Does Caroline want a long-lost cousin? )
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He lets Julia tell him everything she and Mrs Godwin did that day, as well as what they ate for lunch, where they ate it, and the fact that the waiter looked like the father of one of her friend Caroline Watterson from school. But of course it was not him - Julia's friend's father is a banker who works downtown, and if he were a waiter, he could not afford to send his daughter to Julia's school.
"Perhaps he has a long-lost brother," James suggests, "who is working in a restaurant not knowing that his brother is a banker in the very same city."
Julia seems to consider this. "Perhaps. A long-lost twin, separated at birth by a greedy midwife who could not have children of her own, and who did not tell their mother that she was carrying twins. Each of them always wanted a brother as he was growing up. And little do they know that they each have a brother, and moreover grew up in the same city. Perhaps the waiter lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children, one of whom is a daughter Caroline's age."
( Does Caroline want a long-lost cousin? )
words: 2332
total words: 16,310
quickie research: the ny stock exchange, gilded age bedrooms, one thousand and one nights (god bless wikipedia, seriously)
