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However, the eccentricities of a person in such an extremity of love are seldom valued except as comedy, and even then with no warmth of heart for the comedian, but rather with an incredulous disdain; so it is safe to say that under other circu, indeed, and few of the Atwaters would have reat deal about hiht reflect notoriety upon themselves on account of their beautiful relative--and The North End Daily Oriole And when nine o'clock came and Mrs Dill reported to Herbert's father, over the telephone, that nothing had yet been heard of her son, the pressure of those ere bla that Herbert decided he would rather spend the re away fro as he was putting in Thus he defined it

He made a confession; that is to say, it was a proclaan history with a description of events distinctly subsequent to Sunday pastimes with Patty Fairchild, and explained how he and Henry had felt that their parents would not always be with them, and as their parents wished them to be polite, they had resolved to be polite to Florence Proceeding, he related in detail her whole journalistic exploit

Of the matter in hand he told the perfect and absolute truth--and was immediately refuted, confuted, and demonstrated to be a false witness by Aunt Fanny, Aunt Carrie, and Cousin Virginia, who had all heard hi Sunday evening, that he and his partner had taken securefoot within the Newspaper Building In addition, he was quite showered with definitions; and these, though so various, all sought to phrase but the one subject: his conduct in seeking to drag Florence into the mire, when she was absent and could not defend herself Poor Florence would answer later in the evening, he was told severely; and though her cause was thus chaainst the slander, it is true that soard to Florence In fact, there was getting to be so almost like a cloud upon her reputation There were several things for her to explain;--a it upon herself to see that Noble received a copy of the Oriole, and also her sudden departure from home and rather odd protraction of absence therefroood company Uncle Joseph had telephoned fro at a farion of the movies