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"Now, don't lecture!" "But Shepler is one of the richest men in New York." "Dad already suspects as much." "And he's kind, he's a big-hearted chap, a man of the world, generous a " "'A woman fancier, Fidelia Oldaker calls him." "My dear, if he fancies you " "There, you old conservative, I've heard all his good points, and my duty has been written before me in letters of fire.
Oldaker, wincing and turning to Miss Bines for sympathy, heard her say: "Yes, do, Mr. Higbee! I do love those ragtime songs and then have them play 'Tell Me, Pretty Maiden, and the 'Intermezzo." He groaned in anguish.
'Live and let live' is my motto, I tell him, and if the microbes and I both like Scotch and soda, why, what harm. I'm forty-two and not so much of a fool that I ain't a little bit of a physician. I know my stomach, I tell him." "What about these Western people?" she asked Oldaker at her other side, after a little. "Decent, unpretentious folks, somewhat new, but with loads of money."
"Hear, hear!" cried Uncle Peter, and drained his glass eagerly as they drank the toast. Whereat they all laughed and Mrs. Drelmer said, "What a dear, lively wit, for an old gentleman." "Oldaker," said Shepler, "has really been the worst sufferer. This is his first trip West." "Beg pardon, Shepler! I was West as far as Buffalo let me see in 1878 or '79." "Dear me! is that so?" queried Uncle Peter.
Oldaker, tender, girlish, appealing, with the old air of timid wistfulness, kept guard over by her woman's knowledge. His fingers still curved, as if they were loth to forget the clasp of her warm, firm little hand. She was gowned in white fleece, and she wore one pink rose where she could bend her blue eyes down upon it. And she was going to marry Shepler for his millions.
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