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Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forrown peret it back, andof Spain This was once foretold as a probable culmination of Florence Atwater's still plastic profile, if Florence didn't change her way of thinking; and upon Florence's re of Spain was an awf'ly han'soirl!" She irl who looked tooof Spain would not be handsohter decided to misunderstand her

"Why, mamma, he's my Very Ideal! I'd , and let the stocking collapse flaccidly into the work-basket in her lap "Not at barely thirteen, would you?" she said "It see a ot a wife and several children Where did you pick up that 'I'd-marry-him-to-morrow,' Florence?"

"Oh, I hear that everywhere!" returned the das like that I heard Aunt Julia say it I heard Kitty Silver say it"

"About the King of Spain?" Mrs Atwater inquired

"I don't knoho they were saying it about," said Florence, "but they were saying it I don't ether; I heard one say it one time and the other say it so it about some coloured man She proba'ly wouldn't want to marry any white man; at least I don't expect she would She's been married to a couple of coloured men, anyhow; and she was married twice to one of 'em, and the other one died in between Anyhow, that's what she told hed over two hunderd pounds the first tihed over two hunderd-and-seventy the last tiain, but she says she don't kno hed when she was hed all the time she was married to that one Did Kitty Silver ever tell you that, mamma?"

"Yes, often!" Mrs Atwater replied "I don't think it's very entertaining; and it's not ere talking about I was trying to tell you----"

"I know," Florence interrupted "You said I'd get ht to, if I didn't quit turning up uess the best thing would be to just feel that ithout letting on by er"