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The maid dropped the tray into the folds of her black dress; she seemed habituated enough to the sudden appearance of the cardless. She looked up respectfully, admiringly she had opened the door for a good many gentlemen, but seldom for so magnificent and masterful a creature as Abner and said yes.
Lawyer Gooch knew the brand. He thawed just enough to accept the invitation to smoke. "You are a divorce lawyer," said the cardless visitor. This time there was no interrogation in his voice. Nor did his words constitute a simple assertion. They formed a charge a denunciation as one would say to a dog: "You are a dog." Lawyer Gooch was silent under the imputation.
And one day, for some reason, Blanche Devine found herself telling Molly Brandeis how she had come to be Blanche Devine, and it was a moving and terrible story. And now her cardless flowers, a great, scarlet sheaf of them, lay next the chaste white roses that had been sent by the Temple Emanu-el Ladies' Aid. Truly, death is a great leveler.
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