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"If your father had only lived!" Clatter, clatter, clatter, clatter,

bang! It was a fixed belief with Madas pertaining thereto would have been her order had not Monsieur Lebrun been re the early years of their married life

"What do you hear froentleman whose

vain ambition and desire for the past twenty years had been to fill

the void which Monsieur Lebrun's taking off had left in the Lebrun

household Clatter, clatter, bang, clatter!

"I have a letter so

the letter in the bottom of the workbasket "He says to tell you he will

be in Vera Cruz the beginning of next month,"--clatter, clatter!--"and

if you still have the intention of joining hi!

"Why didn't you tell me so before, mother? You knoanted--" Clatter,

clatter, clatter!

"Do you see Mrs Pontellier starting back with the children? She will

be in late to luncheon again She never starts to get ready for luncheon

till the last ?"

"Where did you say the Goncourt was?"