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"'How did you know? I asked. "'Men are very clumsy, said she. 'I knew you were on every train. I thought you were going to speak to me, and I'm glad you didn't. "Then we had more talk; and at last a kind of proud, serious look came on her face, and she turned and pointed a finger at the big house. "'The Allyns, says she, 'have lived in Elmcroft for a hundred years. We are a proud family.
With your permission, I will relate to you a fox-hunting story with which I was personally connected, and which may furnish you some amusement. "So he tells it. It takes forty minutes by the watch. Did I laugh? Well, say! When I got my face straight he calls in old Pete, the superannuated darky, and sends him down to the hotel to bring up my valise. It was Elmcroft for me while I was in the town.
He was there dividing his attentions between Monongahela whiskey and heiresses, and he got fresh. "'Of course, she goes on, 'my father wouldn't allow a drummer to set his foot in Elmcroft. If he knew that I was talking to one over the fence he would lock me in my room. "'Would you let me come there? says I. 'Would you talk to me if I was to call?
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