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As Babbitt went out to his car that evening he saw Vergil Gunch coming down the block. He raised his hand in salutation, but Gunch ignored it and crossed the street. He was certain that Gunch had seen him. He drove home in sharp discomfort.

Anyway I tell you it's mighty important to I was saying to Verg Gunch, just last evening, most people don't take sufficient care of their diges " "Shall we have the Gunches for our dinner, next week?" "Why sure; you bet." "Now see here, George: I want you to put on your nice dinner-jacket that evening." "Rats! The rest of 'em won't want to dress." "Of course they will.

Club members whose names he did not know stopped him to inquire, "How's your good lady getting on?" Babbitt felt that he was swinging from bleak uplands down into the rich warm air of a valley pleasant with cottages. One noon Vergil Gunch suggested, "You planning to be at the hospital about six? The wife and I thought we'd drop in." They did drop in. Gunch was so humorous that Mrs.

There was a good deal of friendly argument among the men as to which should go in last, and while they were crossing the hall from the living-room to the dining-room Vergil Gunch made them laugh by thundering, "If I can't sit next to Myra Babbitt and hold her hand under the table, I won't play I'm goin' home." In the dining-room they stood embarrassed while Mrs.

But I don't figure I was stuck, George, not a bit. Machine looks brand new now not that it's so darned old, of course; had it less 'n three years, but I give it hard service; never drive less 'n a hundred miles on Sunday and, uh Oh, I don't really think you got stuck, George. In the LONG run, the best is, you might say, it's unquestionably the cheapest." "That's right," said Vergil Gunch.

Do you want us to give those hell-hounds love and kisses, or what?" said Orville Jones. "Do you defend a lot of hoodlums that are trying to take the bread and butter away from our families?" raged Professor Pumphrey. Vergil Gunch intimidatingly said nothing. He put on sternness like a mask; his jaw was hard, his bristly short hair seemed cruel, his silence was a ferocious thunder.

He came out with a vicious determination to do what he pleased. "Well, here's the millionaire!" said Sidney Finkelstein. "Yes, I saw him in his Locomobile!" said Professor Pumphrey. "Gosh, it must be great to be a smart guy like Georgie!" moaned Vergil Gunch. "He's probably stolen all of Dorchester.

"Just the same, you don't want to forget prohibition is a mighty good thing for the working-classes. Keeps 'em from wasting their money and lowering their productiveness," said Vergil Gunch. "Yes, that's so. But the trouble is the manner of enforcement," insisted Howard Littlefield. "Congress didn't understand the right system.

Gunch was roaring, "Well, I'll take a chance " when Frink held up his hand and went on, "So if Verg and you insist, Georgie, I'll park my car on the wrong side of the street, because I take it for granted that's the crime you're hinting at!" There was a great deal of laughter. Mrs. Jones asserted, "Mr. Frink is simply too killing! You'd think he was so innocent!"

"The thing that worries me is that a lot of these guys will take to cocaine," sighed Eddie Swanson. They bobbed more violently, and groaned, "That's so, there is a danger of that." Chum Frink chanted, "Oh, say, I got hold of a swell new receipt for home-made beer the other day. You take " Gunch interrupted, "Wait! Let me tell you mine!" Littlefield snorted, "Beer! Rats!

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