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I'll be fifty in three years. Sixty in thirteen years. I'm going to have some fun before it's too late. I don't care! I will!" He thought of Ida Putiak, of Louetta Swanson, of that nice widow what was her name? Tanis Judique? the one for whom he'd found the flat. He was enmeshed in imaginary conversations. Then: "Gee, I can't seem to get away from thinking about folks!"
Well, well, come on now we're friends what's the darling little name?" "Ida Putiak. It ain't so much-a-much of a name. I always say to Ma, I say, 'Ma, why didn't you name me Doloress or something with some class to it?" "Well, now, I think it's a scrumptious name. Ida!" "I bet I know your name!" "Well, now, not necessarily. Of course Oh, it isn't so specially well known." "Aren't you Mr.
They give away the fact that they haven't the instincts of a womanly woman." Remembering Ida Putiak, the manicure girl, and how ill she had used him, Babbitt agreed with enthusiasm; remembering how ill all the world had used him, he told of Paul Riesling, of Zilla, of Seneca Doane, of the strike: "See how it was?
What was he getting out of rebellion? Misery and shame the shame of being treated as an offensive small boy by a ragamuffin like Ida Putiak! And yet Always he came back to "And yet." Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd. Only, he assured himself, he was "through with this chasing after girls."
He was cold with failure. No one could have told Babbitt that he was a fool with more vigor, precision, and intelligence than he himself displayed. He reflected that from the standpoint of the Rev. Dr. John Jennison Drew he was a wicked man, and from the standpoint of Miss Ida Putiak, an old bore who had to be endured as the penalty attached to eating a large dinner.
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