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"You are more ridiculous now than I have yet seen you." After a pause he said magnificently, "Well, Miss Fanhall, you will doubtless find Mr. Hollanden's conversation to have a much greater interest than that of such a ridiculous person." Hollanden approached them with the blithesome step of an untroubled man. "Hello, you two people, why don't you oh ahem! Hold on, Billie, where are you going?"
As the evening grew old, the mother of the Worcester girls joined the group. This was a sign that the girls were not to long delay the vanishing time. She sat almost upon the edge of her chair, as if she expected to be called upon at any moment to arise and bow "Good-night," and she repaid Hollanden's eloquent attention with the placid and absent-minded smiles of the chaperon who waits.
From off in the darkness they heard the sound of Hollanden's oars splashing in the water. Sometimes there was squealing by the Worcester girls, and at other times loud arguments on points of navigation. "Oh," said the girl suddenly, "Mr. Oglethorpe is coming to-morrow!" "Mr. Oglethorpe?" said Hawker. "Is he?" "Yes." She gazed off at the water. "He's an old friend of ours.
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