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Ralph Marshall decided that he never had seen Bettina Graham so agreeable nor so good looking as she was tonight.
Ralph was a great admirer of Bettina's mother; indeed, whenever he made a visit to Washington, he was always in Mrs. Graham's train. And he knew that Mrs. Graham wished him to be friends with her daughter; indeed, she had frankly told him so, announcing that she believed the one would be good for the other. For Bettina, in her mother's eyes, was too grave, too given to yielding to odd fancies and too indifferent to people, while Ralph, in contrast, was too frivolous and fond of society. He was some day to inherit great wealth, so his father was trying vainly to interest him in something of importance. His excursions to Washington and his connection with Senator Graham were in order to inform him of national affairs. Failing that interest, for Ralph had announced himself as bored to death by politics, he had gone for a few weeks to the Webster farm, pretending to have developed a curiosity concerning scientific farming.