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It was this longing, and by no means a confirmed unveracity, that prompted her to auess I pretty near never do anything I don't want to," she said "I kind of run the house to suit uess if the truth had to be told, I just about run the whole Atwater family, when it comes to that!"

The state Noble's attention from the back of Julia's head "You do?" he said "Well, that seehed In her increasing exaltation things appeared actually to be as she wished them to be; an atmosphere both queenly and adventurous seemed to invest her, and any reed by the circumstance that her Aunt Julia's attention was subject to the strong de a walk between two gentlemen who do not "speak" to each other "Oh, I don't know," said Florence "The fas, they haf to be, I guess When they don't like it I don't sayfor her iination to supply a sequel to the drauess they kind of find out they better step around pretty lively," she concluded darkly "They don't bother around too much!"

"I suppose not," said Noble, his vacancy and credulity continuing to dovetail perfectly

"You bet not!" the exuberant Florence thought proper to suggest as a preferable expression And then she had an inspiration to enliven his dreamy interest in her conversation "Grandpa, he's the one I kind of run most of all of 'eot too ot too much sense left, you know So I haf to sort of take holt every now and then" She lowered her voice a little, so her inward ear "Aunt Julia can't do a thing with hiuess that's maybe the reason she kind of depen's on me so much; or anyway sorandpa into lettin' her send to New York for her things Aunt Julia gets all her things in New York"