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Usage examples of celia.

While Celia was having her talk with Martin, a half-dozen other executives who had accompanied her from Felding-Roth headquarters were having separate, specialized discussions about the future of Peptide 7.

She had lost weight and confided to Celia that Martin had at last allowed her to take Peptide 7.

After shaking hands with Sastri, and before they sat down, Celia closed the door for privacy.

By that time, also, Celia had decided to leave well alone and not raise the subject of Montayne with her husband again.

That would account, Celia thought, for the fact that she and Andrew had heard nothing adverse about Montayne while on their tour.

Ingram, who had voted against Celia and for Montayne at the critical meeting prior to her resignation, had been penitent and uneasy at the time of her return to Felding-Roth.

There seemed little to say, but Celia thought, How much sadness and tragedy, beyond the obvious, Montayne had wrought!

They continued talking, Camperdown asking questions of Celia about her merchandising experiences.

Also in October the news reached Celia that Eli Camperdown, president and CEO of Felding-Roth, who had been ill for several months, was dying.

Somehow-though not from Celia, who kept her own counsel-a report of her encounter with Eli Camperdown filtered through the company.

The death of Eli Camperdown occurred two weeks after Celia visited him.

And while Celia and O-T-C were meshed fructiferously, events elsewhere moved on as always-with tragedy, comedy, conflict, nobility, sadness, laughter and human folly-bounding or shuffling onstage, sometimes as entities, occasionally all together.

Celia or to Chloe, which sounded just as fine to him as Effie and Minnie sound to young people now, as Musidora, as Saccharissa, as Lesbia, as Helena, as Adah and Zillah, have all sounded to young people in their time,--ashes of roses as they are to us now, and as our endearing Scotch diminutives will be to others by and by.

There was only one possible choice and the board of directors made it, taking less than fifteen minutes to decide what should have been decided the previous September: Celia Jordan would become president and chief executive officer of Felding-Roth.

Celia, now a full-fledged member of the board of directors, prepared carefully for the meeting which would consider her proposed Felding-Roth Doctrine.