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"Think I'd spend all my days starin' at Herbert Illingsworth Atwater, Junior, and that nasty little Henry Rooter, and call it amusement?" "Then why do you do it?" "Why do I do what, mamma?" Florence inquired, as in despair of Mrs. Atwater's ever learning to put things clearly. "Why do you 'spend all your days' watching them?
Newland had not restrained himself, Aunt Carrie said, and long before he left she wished Julia had never been born and as for Herbert Illingsworth Atwater, Junior, the only thing to do with him was to send him to some strict Military School. Florence's father telephoned to her mother from downtown at three, and said that Mr. George Plum and the ardent vocalist, Clairdyce, had just left his office.
"I wish to make just one last simple remark that I would care to soil myself with in your respects, Mister Herbert Illingsworth Atwater and Mister Henry Rooter!" "Oh, say not so, Florence!" they both entreated. "Say not so! Say not so!" "I'll just simply state the simple truth," Florence announced.
"That little Henry Rooter is the worst falsehooder in this town; and I never believed a word he said in his life! Anyway, what affairs is it of yours, I'd like you to please be so kind and obliging for to tell me, Mister Herbert Illingsworth Atwater, Exquire!" "What affairs?" Herbert echoed in plaintive satire. "What affairs is it of mine? That's just the trouble!
Patty was thirteen and a half; an exquisite person with gold-dusted hair, eyes of singing blue, and an alluring air of sweet self-consciousness. Henry Rooter and Herbert Illingsworth Atwater, Jr., out gathering news, saw her entering Florence's gate, and immediately forgot that they were reporters. They became silent, gradually moving toward the house of their newspaper's sole poetess.
So it was that Herbert Illingsworth Atwater, Jr., sat for a considerable time upon such a fence, after school hours, every afternoon of the last week in October; and only one person particularly observed him or was stimulated to any mental activity by his procedure.
"Yes if I got to tell the truth I know I have got pretty eyes," Herbert had unfortunately written. "I am glad you think so too Patty because your eyes are too Herbert Illingsworth Atwater, Jr." And Mr.
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