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He nodded, breathless, evidently proud of his feat, and when he caught his breath enough to speak, explained, "Yepp, it's the only place in this bum town where you can get Alligretti's, and they're the only kind that're fit to eat" He tore open the box as he spoke, demolishing with ruthless and practised hands the various layers of fine paper and gold cord which wrapped it about, and presented the rich layer of black chocolates to Sylvia.
The donor showed no resentment at this ingratitude, holding the box on his knees, continuing to help himself to its contents with unabated zest, and to keep the conversation up to concert pitch: " the only girl I ever saw who'd stop eating Alligretti's while there was one left another proof that there's only one of you I said right off, that any co-ed that Jerry Fiske would take to must be a unique specimen " He did not further specify the period to which he referred by his "right off," but the phrase gave Sylvia a tingling, uncomfortable sense of having been for some time the subject of speculation in circles of which she knew nothing.
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