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"Severance, you're going too far along your chosen line," declared Banneker bluntly. "Yes; we must tone down a little," agreed Marrineal. The sensationalist lifted calmly luminous eyes to his chief. "Why?" he queried softly. "Are you meditating a change? Does the journalistic l-lady of easy virtue begin to yearn f-for the paths of respectability?" "Steady, Severance," warned Edmonds.
Cora accepted the correction obediently, but her self-confidence was shaken. She managed to stammer, "'Give t-to his c-cousin, L-Lady C-Clare," and then a storm of tears set in, drowning her utterance. "Well, what do you think o' that?" exclaimed Martha, amazed at the undue sensitiveness of her offspring. "Never mind, Cora! You done it grand! as far as you went."
Gwen made your son's acquaintance under peculiar circumstances romantic circumstances and, as I know, instantly saw that his eyesight might be destroyed and that the blame would rest with her family...." "No, L-Lady Ancester" he stumbled somehow over the name, for no apparent reason "I deny that. I protest against it...." "We need not settle that point. Your feeling is a generous one.
The husband-elect listened, nodded, and spoke up. "I'll pay you two dollars." Blister looked at the bride reproachfully. "L-lady, if you ain't worth s-six dollars to him you ain't worth a c-cent. But I'll show you how good a sport I am. I'll m-make you a wedding present of the j-job. Got any witnesses?" "Do we have to have witnesses?" asked Bob helplessly.
But Sir Hamilton did not seem so sure the performance was over. "Half a minute more, L-Lady Ancester," said he; and he again half-stumbled over her name. "I am rather slow in expressing myself, but I have something I want to say." "I am not in a hurry." "I can only do exactly what you have asked me to do place the case before my son as you have placed it before me."
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