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She turned beahed

"Just one big, jolly family I didn't know people could be like this until

I came to Plattville"

"That is the word for it," he answered, resting his hand on the casement

beside her "I used to think it was desolate, but that was long ago" He

leaned frolow Carlow

folk had never seen there; and somehow he seemed less thin and tired;

indeed, he did not seem tired at all, by far the contrary; and he carried

hi to see under the hat), though

not as if he thought about it "I believe they are the best people I

know," he went on "Perhaps it is because they have been so kind to ood people----"

"I know," she said, nodding--a flower on the gauzy hat set to vibrating in

a tantalizing way "I know There are fat women who rock and rock on

piazzas by the sea, and they speak of country people as the 'lower

classes' How happy this big fa it is the lower

classes!" "We haven't read Nordau down here," said John "Old Tom Martin's