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For the paper Billy had thrown into the fire had fallen under the gas-logs, and she remembered his guilty start. "After all," said Margaret, "it's none of my business." So she eyed it wistfully. "It may be important," she considerately remembered. "It ought not to be left there." So she fished it out with a big paper-cutter.
During great moments like this, a man gathers courage and confidence from a pipeful of tobacco. I dropped into a comfortable Morris, touched the gas-logs, and fell into a pleasant dream. It was not necessary for me to start for the Twenty-third Street ferry till nine; so I had something like three-quarters of an hour to idle away. . . . What beautiful hair that girl had!
"Well," said I, rising and lighting the gas-logs for I was on the very verge of congealment "I am sure I am pleased if you like my stories." "Oh, as for that, I don't think much of them," said the Awful Thing, with a purple display of candor which amused me, although I cannot say that I relished it; "but you never lie about us.
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