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"Just a chorus! They were a lot of tabby-cats afraid to wet their precious feet. If it hadn't been for Tom, Miss Gray would have been drowned before the eyes of that mean director and those other imitation men. Ugh! I de-test a coward!" This was said later, however. Until they drew Tom and his fainting burden ashore, neither Ruth nor Helen had time for criticism.
As the door closed behind him, she flew after him, to deliver herself of one parting shot, "Charlie MacGregor, I de-test you! You're no gentleman, even if you do think you are; and I only hope you'll get what you deserve for being so rude to me, when I'm company."
"I de-test it!" answered Rose, with all the emphasis which a turned-up nose, a shudder, and a groan could give to the three words. "You are not a true Scotchwoman, if you don't like the 'parritch. It's a pity, for I made it myself, and thought we'd have such a good time with all that cream to float it in. Well, never mind." And he sat down with a disappointed air.
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