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Her eyes fairly danced

"Oh, what a lovely word!" she cried rapturously "What does it

nice, or I'm sure you wouldn't have said it about rave "Oh, please tell ton was thrown into confusion at this, for he did not knohether she was serious or not He could do nothing but staet

red, and think what a ridiculous ass he was ht

have considered the help he was getting in that

"Well, then, you needn't," she conceded, ht not to say things about girls that you don't dare tell

thes about ht

as well say them so I can understand them; only, I do think it's a

little early in our acquaintance"

This cast Bennington still more in perplexity He had a

pretty-well-defined notion that he was being ridiculed, but concerning

this, just a last grain of doubt remained She rattled on

"Well!" said she i? Why don't

you take this stick? I don't want it Men are so stupid!"

That last remark has been made many, many times, and yet it never fails

of its effect, which is at once to invest the speaker with daintiness