“What can I do for you?” he asked.
“Marry me,” said Elizabeth.
“There now,” he said. “I knew I’d forgotten something. Please excuse me. I’ve been so busy.”
Louis Bassett, in the Times Republican office, stared at the notice in the paper.
“Married—on the 17th at St. Barnabas’s Church, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wheeler, to Dr. Richard Livingston.”
“Gosh!” he said. “I wonder who she married.”
BABBITT
on
Sinclair Lewis
It was night in Zenith, the night of the grand testimonial banquet tendered to George F. Babbitt, by the Boosters Club, in honor of the publication of the well-known novel entitled “Babbitt.” Mr. Babbitt spoke on “American Literature,” in part as follows: