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'I'm glad you're so fond of flowers, Mrs. . Oh, you haven't told us your name yet, Edie said, beginning vaguely to suspect that perhaps the hard-faced landlady wasn't quite as bad as she looked to a casual observer. 'Alliss, mum, the landlady answered, filling up Edie's interrogatory blank. 'My name is 'Alliss. 'Alice what? Edie asked again.
He turned it over and looked closely at the inside: cut into the soft gold he saw the one word 'Frustra, that he himself had carved into it with his penknife the night before the memorable wedding. 'Where did you get this? he asked the child. 'Mrs. 'Alliss give it me, the little one answered, beginning to cry. Arthur ran lightly down the steps again, and knocked at the door of Mrs.
'Oh, no, mum, you don't rightly understand me, the landlady replied, getting very red, and muddling up her aspirates more decidedly than ever, as people with her failing always do when they want to be specially deliberate and emphatic: 'not Halice, but 'Alliss; haitch, hay, hell, hell, hi, double hess 'Alliss: my full name's Martha 'Alliss, mum; my 'usband's John 'Alliss.
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