The Automobile Girls at Washington eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 206 pages of information about The Automobile Girls at Washington.

The Automobile Girls at Washington eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 206 pages of information about The Automobile Girls at Washington.

Barbara shook her brown head vigorously.  “I am not the impetuous Bab of other automobile days.  But, just the same, I wish Aunt Sallie had come along with you.”

“Oh, she may join us later,” Ruth returned.  “To tell you the truth, Bab, Aunt Sallie is not fond of Harriet.  She thinks Harriet is clever and pretty, but vain and spoiled.  Here come Mollie and Grace.  Home from that reception at last!”

The other two girls burst into Ruth’s room at this moment.

“Whom do you think we have seen?” called out Miss Mollie rapturously.  “Oh, Washington is the greatest fun!  I feel just like a girl in a book, we have been presented to so many noted people.  I tell you, Barbara Thurston, we are country girls no longer!  Now we have been traveling about the country so much with Ruth and Mr. Stuart, that we know people everywhere.  Just guess whom we know in Washington?”

“I can guess,” Ruth rejoined, clapping her hands.  “You have seen Mrs. Post and Hugh.  Surely, you had not forgotten that they live in Washington.  Hugh has finished college and has a position in the Forestry Department.  I had a note from him this morning.”

“And didn’t tell!  Oh, Ruth!” teased Grace Carter.  “But, Bab, what about our Lenox friends, who spend their winters in Washington?”

“You mean Dorothy and Gwendolin Morton, the British Ambassador’s daughters, and funny little Franz Haller, the German secretary, I hope we shall see them.  But do hurry, children.  Please don’t keep the Assistant Secretary of State waiting for his dinner.  That would surely be a bad beginning for our Washington visit.  No, Mollie Thurston; don’t you put on your very best dress for dinner to-night.  I have just gotten out your white muslin.”

“But Harriet wears such lovely clothes all the time, Bab,” Mollie pleaded, when she and Barbara were alone.

“Never mind, child.  Harriet Hamlin is not Mollie Thurston,” Barbara concluded wisely.

CHAPTER II

CABINET DAY IN WASHINGTON

It was Harriet Hamlin’s reception day.  There are certain times appointed in Washington when the members of the President’s Cabinet hold receptions.

The “Automobile Girls” had come to Washington in time for one of these special entertainments.  For, as Harriet explained, they could see everyone worth seeing at once.  Not only would the diplomats, the senators and congressmen call with their wives, but the Army and Navy officers, all official Washington would appear to pay their respects to Mr. William Hamlin and his lovely daughter.

“Then there will be a crowd of unimportant people besides,” Harriet had continued.  “People who are never asked to any small parties come to this reception just because they can get in.  So you girls will have to entertain yourselves this morning.  I have a thousand things to do.  Why not take the girls to look at the White House, Ruth?  That is the first thing to do in Washington.  I am sorry I can’t go with you.  But you just walk straight down Connecticut Avenue and you can’t miss it.”

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