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He told how Florette had bidden him "learn to be a li'l gem'mum," and how he really tried; but how silly were the rules that governed a gentlemanly existence; how the other li'l gem'mum laughed at him, and talked of things he had never heard of, and never heard of the things he talked of, until at last he had ceased trying to be one of them.
Mine hasn't come, and I'm frantic, simply frantic. Well, why don't you go?" "I'll hook you up," said Freddy. "You!" "Sure! I kin do it better'n any maid you'd get in this helluva school." "Why, Freddy!" "Aw, I heard you sayin' damn! You're in the p'fession, huh? Me, too." "You, too?" His face clouded. "Oh! And now you have retired?" "Yeah learnin' to be a gem'mum.
She just stood still, looking at Jimsy until it seemed as if she were all eyes. "It comes so suddenly," Carter had told her "like the boa constrictor's hunger ... and then he was just an appetite." "Ladies'n gem'mum," said Jimsy, thickly, "goin' shing you lil' song!" Then, in his hoarse and baffled voice he sang Stanford's giddy old saga, "The Son of a Gambolier."
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