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Charain She

was deep in her housekeeping accounts, adding and subtracting

and, bethiles, regarding the result with a rueful frown

Her sleeves were rolled up over her round, white arms, and I

inwardly wondered if the much vaunted Phryne's were ever , or of a fairer texture Had I

possessed the genius of a Praxiteles I iven to the

world a masterpiece of beauty to replace his vanished Venus of

Cnidus; but, as it happened, I was only a huhed, and nibbled her pen, and sighed

again

"What is it, Charures I detest, loathe,

and abominate them--especially when they won't balance!"

"Then never mind them," said I

"Never

the costs so much and we so poor?"

"Are we?" said I

"Why, of course we are"

"Yes--to be sure--I suppose we are," said I drea, and Berenice was famous