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Charlotte never got that supper together in the world. You did it yourself, not to disturb her. I never saw so much food at one time, in all my life." It was a monstrous feast, bread, butter, cheese, ham: very neatly assembled, but for a giant's appetite. "We'll all have some," sad Raven. "Draw up, old son. Nan'll butter for us."
Nan'll tell you the same thing." "Sure!" corroborated Rhoda Gray, picking up the obvious cue. "Dat's de straight goods." The two men were lounging beside a table that stood at the extreme end of the room, and now for a moment they whispered together. And, as they whispered, Rhoda Gray found her first opportunity to take critical stock both of her surroundings and of the two men themselves.
"I fancy," said Raven, "Nan'll tell you you've got nothing whatever to do with it. And really, Dick, you never'll get Nan by bullying her. Don't you know you won't?" Dick, having a perfectly good chance, turned the tables on him neatly. "That'll do," said he, remembering how Raven had shut him up when he dragged in Anne Hamilton. "We won't discuss Nan."
I never supposed there were so many poor people in this whole world as we have seen in Chicago. "I used to just detest the word 'poor' Nan'll tell you," confessed Bess. "I guess being with Nan has kind of awakened me to 'our duties, as Mrs. Cupp would say," and she laughed. "Oh!" cried Grace. "I'd do for them, if I could. But I don't even know how to talk to them.
The path, become narrower, rougher and more winding, plunged sharply, steeply downwards, running perilously along the cliff's edge. Nan got on her bicycle. Barry called from the rear, "Nan! It can't be done! It's not rideable.... Don't be absurd." Nan, remarking casually "It'll be rideable if I ride it," began to do so. "Madwoman," Barry said, and Kay assured him, "Nan'll be all right.
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