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Dick had made some sad pun about Bounds doing patchwork, but if there was one thing worse than a pun, she said, it was a person who, as the inevitable come-back to a pun, gave the perpetrator a mock-reproachful look. "Where are you from?" inquired Anthony. He knew, but beauty had rendered him thoughtless. "Kansas City, Missouri." "They put her out the same time they barred cigarettes."
Not a wrinkle of her ill-fitting bodice escaped me, not a movement of her ungainly form passed unnoticed, I was dissecting her to a pitiful disadvantage, following up each new discovery with a moral of my own when a half-subdued voice whispered in my ear: "Spare her, Miss Hampden." I looked up significantly and met Dr. Campbell's mock-reproachful glance, resting full upon me. "Spare whom?"
And when she came around to him and passed, she leaned from the circle toward him, merry and mock-reproachful: "You mustn't look at me like that," she whispered, and Hunt, close at hand, saw, guessed and smiled. Chad turned quickly away again. That happy dawn going home! The Major drowsed and fell asleep.
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