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Then suddenly the leghorn hat was on the floor, daisy side down, while she climbed into his lap and her soft cheek buried itself under Mr. Evringham's ear. "How m-many m-miles off is Chicago?" stammered the child, trying to repress her sobs, all happy considerations suddenly lost in the realization of her grandfather's lonely lot. "A good many more than it ought to be. Don't cry, Jewel."
Carter smiled condescendingly. "Your old business partner, I believe?" "Before he was yours," said Sandy. This was not at all to Annette's taste. They were not even thinking about her. "How m-many dances do you want for to-night?" she asked Sandy. "The first four." She wrote them on the corner of her fan. "Yes?" "The last four." "Yes?" "And the four in between. What's that on your fan?"
He led her gently to the great cushioned window-seat and listened sympathetically to her excited babblings. "It will kill Peter it will kill him! In in a great m-many ways, you know, Will, Peter isn't so so c-calm as Caddy. He is just bound up in her. Suppose Oh, Will!" "Don't cry, Sue dear, don't!" he said soothingly. "She has a good chance a fine chance, really.
"You are so b-big," she said; "and you've got so m-many feet!" "The more of me to love ye." "I wonder if you d-do?" She put her chin on her palms, looking at him sidewise. "Don't ye do that again!" he cried. "Haven't I passed ye the warning never to look at me when you fix your mouth like that?" She tried to call him a goose, though she knew that g's were fatal.
Mollie thought she detected a faint glimmer of mirth in his eye after the ceremony. She quelled it promptly. "If you get gay with me, Blister " The fat man's impulse to smile fled. "Honest to goodness, Mrs. Gillespie " "Larson," she corrected. "Larson," he accepted. "I w-wish you m-many happy returns." She looked at him suspiciously and grunted "Hmp!"
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