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The greatest prize which Madam Liberality had gained from her wanderings by the seashore was a complete scallop-shell. When washed the double shell was as clean and as pretty as any china muffin-dish with a round top; and now her ambition was to get four more, and thus to have a service for doll's feasts which should far surpass the oyster-shells.
His face, although not a clever one, was so heavenly kind! "I won't trouble you to fetch any tea," he said. "If I might be allowed to er stay here and talk to you for a few minutes " "Tea or coffee, sir?" "Oh, well, tea, then confound the stuff!" He threw down his hat and stick, and stood while she placed the brown tray, the tiny teapot, the minute muffin-dish before him.
"I cannot think," I began, "what can have induced a girl like you, with means and friends, with brains and" I drew back, then I plumped it out "beauty, to take to such a life as this a life which seems, in many ways, so unworthy of you!" She stirred the fire more pensively than ever, and rearranged the muffin-dish on the little wrought-iron stand in font of the grate.
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