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This seemed to Patty a line of conversation distinctly to be discouraged under all the circumstances, and she tried to keep Cephas on the subject of his daily tasks and his mother's rheumatism until she could escape from his over-appreciative society. "How do you like my last job?" he inquired as they passed his father's house. "Some think I've got the ell a little mite too yaller.
Damie, inwardly rejoiced, but, as usual, not over-appreciative, reminds him of the "pair of leather breeches," a debt which John also promises to pay. Damie then displays unexpected cleverness by performing a mock-ceremony, in which he compels John to ask him, as his sister's only living relative, for Amrei's hand.
"Because I'm so 'obtuse' and 'offensive, I suppose. Oh, if I could only write, or paint, or play, or something!" Cope put his hand wearily to his forehead. The arts were a curse. So were gifted girls. So were over-appreciative women. He wished he were back home, smoking a quiet cigarette with Arthur Lemoyne. Mrs. Ryder came bustling up Mrs.
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