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This is a sure thing I almost wish it wasn't; I mean if I can work it " He had a sudden vision of the comprehensiveness of the temptation. If only he had been less sure of Dinslow! His assurance gave the situation the base element of safety. "I don't understand you," she faltered.

Then Gracie, with tears not yet dried from the late conflict, lifted up her voice in a rapture of miniature delight; "Dinnie says, 'gobble the food'! Dinnie says, 'gobble the food!" "Didn't say 'gobble the food!" exclaimed Dinslow, blacker than a little thunder-cloud. Madeline anticipated the rising storm, and stamped her foot and cried: "Will you be still?"

From the outskirts of this group Glennard wandered to another, where a voice as different as possible from Hollingsworth's colorless organ dominated another circle of languid listeners. "Come and hear Dinslow talk about his patent: admission free," one of the men sang out in a tone of mock resignation. Dinslow turned to Glennard the confident pugnacity of his smile.

There was a brief altercation between Dinslow and Grace, the little Keelers, in which impromptu missiles, such as spoons and knives and small tin-cups, were hurled across the table with unguided wrath, and both infants yelled furiously. Grandma had nearly succeeded in quieting them, when Madeline remarked to Grandpa Keeler, in her lively and flippant style: "Come, pa, say your piece."

"Now, Dinnie," said Grandma Keeler, beguilingly; but it was not until after much coaxing and threatening, and the promise of a spoonful of sugar when it was over, that Dinslow was induced to solicit the same blessing, in the same poetical terms, and with an expedition still more alarming.