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"Ah!" put in the old man sarcastically, "Matilda will never marry again, I'm sure; she loves her old dad too much and feels far too happy at home to do that." "Ho, ho, ho!" laughed John scornfully, "I did not mean Matilda, I was not thinking of her. Ho, ho, ho! Madame Langai imagines that she is the only person in the house whose hand can be wooed and won."
"Yet, yesterday, you would have called him out," continued Madame Langai teasingly. "Yes, I was angry with him then, but there are circumstances which may reconcile a couple of would-be duellists, are there not?" "Oh, certainly, if a man is a man of business before all things, or has perhaps a valuable house or two on his hands." "This has nothing to do with business or selling houses.
John was much put out by her indifference. "Matilda," he asked, "what do you say? Ought I not to fight, after such an insult?" Madame Langai answered the unavoidable question with a cold smile: "I would only say that if anyone angers you another time you had better expend your wrath upon him before dinner, for if you nurse your wrath till after dinner you spoil the whole thing." Mr.
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