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The boy was silent for a spell; evidently he was trying to recall the exact formula which had been dinned into his unreceptive brain, and to repeat word for word the lesson which he had learned parrotwise.
"Why not? Am I not young? Am I not pretty?" This she said not parrotwise, but with a simple coquettishness that was all her own. On the way to the steamer a few moments later, Ernest asked, half-reproachfully: "Jack and you really enjoyed this conversation?" "Didn't you?" "Do you mean this?" "Why, yes; she was very agreeable." Ernest frowned. "We're twenty, Ernest.
"Ah que vous etes femme!" She put her hands to her ears. "Listen. Que-vous-etes-femme" she said. "Que-vous-etes-femme," Paul repeated parrotwise. "Is that better?" "A little." "I see the Greek Kalends have begun," said he. "Mechant, you have caught me in a trap," said she. And they both laughed.
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