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"She is both, Dick. She is very deeply interested in your case." "I hope you won't let her send me roses and sweet violets, kid. That's an awful gag they're workin' now. There's a fellow down the line here that cut his wife's head nearly off in two places on both sides of the neck and he's getting pink roses and lilies of the valley by the cab-load."
While she was hesitating a cab-load of sunburnt children, accompanied by a stout, jolly-looking mother, went by on their way to the railway station. It was the beginning of that exodus which would grow more general every day during the next fortnight until the season was over.
It lay piled upon the window-sill, casting a ghostly light into the darkening room, vaguely outlining the slender figure that sat so still before the high desk. Another cab-load of laughing girls was just passing out at the gate. There could not be many left. The darkness increased, and mademoiselle drew a quick breath and shivered. She wished the departures were all over.
But it ain't often either that a man comes along with a cab-load of things to join a ship at this time of night. I've been in the dock police thirteen years and haven't seen it done once.
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