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"But," interrupted Edgar in a tone that would tolerate no trifling, "you yourself have never financed or organized an expedition with the object in view of " "Oh, that part's easy!" I assured him. "The fitting-out part you can safely leave to me." I assumed a confidence that I hoped he might believe was real.
"Why," he said, "you're a big girl, aren't you?" "I don't know," she said, through a little laugh of embarrassment, and noticing that, regarding her, he wetted his lips. "That part's all right. What I need is a good refined ballad voice. Understand? The kind that can sing 'The Suwanee River' as if the only thing in the world that mattered is that old plantation down there. Understand?" "I see."
In less time than it takes to tell it, we were whirling over the marshes, swaying from side to side, tearing a long hole in the atmosphere, I fancy; and certainly almost jarring the teeth from my head. "How's this for time?" cried the inventor. "It's all right for t-t-t-time," I stuttered. "But " "Yes, that part's all right," yelled the engineer, who had been ruthlessly detailed to assist.
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