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At a blurred indefinite time of late night Babbitt was awakened by the ring of the telephone and gloomily crawled down-stairs. Howard Littlefield was speaking: "George, Euny isn't back yet. Is Ted?" "No at least his door is open " "They ought to be home. Eunice said the dance would be over at midnight. What's the name of those people where they're going?"
"God keep us from rocks and shelving sands, And save us from Breage and Germoe men's hands!" The parish of Breage has a specially attractive church, dedicated to St. Breaca, who landed in the Hayle estuary some time in the sixth century; she was an Irish lady, said to have been the sister of St. Uni, of Euny Lelant and other churches.
His first comfort was from Ted and Eunice Littlefield. They danced in one evening when Ted was home from the university, and Ted chuckled, "What's this I hear from Euny, dad? She says her dad says you raised Cain by boosting old Seneca Doane. Hot dog! Give 'em fits! Stir 'em up! This old burg is asleep!"
The boyish outburst was so unmistakably one of admiration, of immediate capitulation to Eunice's charm, that she blushed adorably, and the others 'laughed outright. "One more scalp, Euny," said Elliott; "oh, you can't help it, I know." "Go on, Mr. Hanlon," said Eunice, and he went on. "You see, to make you understand it rightly, I must go back a ways.
"Not unless you tell me what I ask. Why won't you? Is it a secret? Pooh! I'd just as lief ask Mr. Tom Meredith myself, if I could see him. Never mind, don't tell me, if you don't want to. You're not my only confidential friend; there are others." "Who are they, Euny? I flattered myself I was your only really, truly intimate friend not even excepting your husband!" "Oh, what a naughty speech!
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