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Whereupon, realizing I had made a perfect fool of o the rounds of the suburb, and I could never erase it froe mind--not if I lived a hundred sensible years, I hada pot of bachelors' buttons that stood near, and breaking the whole thing over Mrs Catlin's idiotic skull

It was on top of this pleasant intervieith Mrs Catlin, that Mr Chance ca with hi the bachelors' buttons that Mrs Catlin had but just escaped

I strode indoors, and began packing some of my effects, for I was resolved to move that day, or the next Not because I had discovered I had such fools for neighbors--I had always known that--but because I had just discovered that they had a fool for a neighbor

Worldly considerations prevailed with me, and I took out the Penates that I had slammed into a trunk, mended their broken noses, and set them in place once more; but I hid myself away for several days, nified reason

After a time, I cooled off, and decided to accept the world as it stood, and not to rage because the millennium did not come before I was fitted to enjoy it

Mrs Purblind ran over one afternoon, and I could see that she was far froes in the direction of improvement, in her care of her husband and household I had also noticed that Mr Purblind's conduct did not keep pace with these ih to see or sensitive enough to care In this it seems I erred, as I have in one, or perhaps two, other directions during my life

As Mrs Purblind, for the first time since I have known her, didn't seean reading aloud As luck would have it, I stues descriptive of the ideal hoain, the poor woman burst into tears I suppose that tender little sentence served as the key that unlocked the floodgates As soon as her grief had spent itself, she apologized, and ascribed her tears to bad news in a letter or so down the street, until rieved me sorely that the cause of her sorroas so deep, and so delicate that I could not offer her my sympathy Her tears were piteous to me, and I wanted to take her to my heart, and tell her how sorry I was for her; but to do that would have been to take advantage of her moment of weakness, and that I could not--o froret that she had received disturbing nehile all the ti in unison with hers, and I kept her with ht, all day