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Updated: May 12, 2025
He discovered that in the intervals, when she had nothing to do, she read books and magazines, or worked on some sort of feminine fancy work. Passing her desk, once, he picked up a volume of Kipling's poems and glanced bepuzzled through the pages. "You like reading, Miss Mason?" he said, laying the book down. "Oh, yes," was her answer; "very much."
Then he studied the deep-lined face of the toil-worn woman before him, remembered her soups and loaves of new baking, and felt spring up in him the warmest gratitude and philanthropy. "Maria," he exclaimed suddenly. "What would you like to have?" She looked at him, bepuzzled. "What would you like to have now, right now, if you could get it?" "Shoe alla da roun' for da childs seven pairs da shoe."
She looked as if she were thinking about something. "Don't you find it," she asked, after a moment, with the slightest bepuzzled drawing together of her eyebrows, "a trifle unpleasant, hearing Mass from where you do?" John looked blank. "Unpleasant? No. Why?" he asked.
Bert was humming: "We're living now in a funny time, When money is made to burn." Mary was too angry with her husband, because of the impending strike and his incendiary utterances, to hold conversation with Saxon, and the latter, bepuzzled, listened to the conflicting opinions of the men. "Where are we at?" she asked them, with a merriness that concealed her anxiety at heart.
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