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Her somber eyes were on the lonely figure of her son on the porch across the two back yards. "You didn't? Well, I'll say it to you, then. 'Tain't much; still, it's kind of good, in a way. I hain't written hardly anything lately; but I did write this: We've a wheatless day, An' a meatless day, An' a tasteless, wasteless, sweetless day.
A weakness for crudely serviceable contrivances that pointedly suggest immediate and wasteless use is present even in the middle-class tastes; but it is there kept well in hand under the unbroken dominance of the canon of reputable futility.
"It was well," I thought, "that I could not cry out: if she had risen, the monster would have been upon her!" But when I reached the place, no lady was there; only the garments she had dropped lay dusk in the moonlight. I stood staring after the second beast. It tore over the ground with yet greater swiftness than the former in long, level, skimming leaps, the very embodiment of wasteless speed.
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