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"I think itto talk that way to personssounder with soers, and tried to iuess"

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She cast ato square himself," she observed carelessly "But, unfortunately, I'"

She poked investigatingly a the chocolates, and finally selected a delectable morsel with epicurean care

"You haven't tolde since he said to Pete Hamilton yesterday in the store--ah--" She leaned and barely reached a slip of paper which was lying upon a row of books "I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget it," she explained parenthetically "He said to Pete, in the store, just after Pete had tried to say so funny with the usual lanizing the line of dee and objectionable familiarity' Noant to knohat sort of a e professor, would--or could--say that without studying it first It sounded awfully impromptu and easy--and yet he looks--well, cowboyish What sort of a youngman" Evadna leaned to help herself to more chocolates "He--well, just to show you how horrid, he calls ie eyed her ent, a keen observer, with the ability to express hiraciously toward the sounder, which seeood deal of insistence "That's Shoshone calling," she said, frowning attentively "They've got an old crank up there in the office--I'd know his touch a a million--and when he calls he hed, tucked a chocolate into her cheek, and went scowling to the table "Can't the idiot see I'm out?" she complained whimsically "What's that card for, I wonder?"