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He looked through the nearest groups, approached one of the fat women, who was industriously sorting the remains of the feast and depositing the largest and most attractive pieces of cake in her own basket, and made bold to inquire if she knew where Miss Bridger had gone. "Gone home after some prune pie, I guess maybe," she retorted quellingly, and Billy asked no farther.
She will weep like another Alexander the Great, because there are no more heavens to hope for. Jim led her into the best room there was up-stairs, and told her that a duke had slept there. At first she was thrilled through. Later it would occur to her, not tragically, yet a bit quellingly, that, after all, she had not married a duke herself, but only a commoner.
"Well, I don't blame you for not liking the town, Val," he said at last, rather desperately. "But you mustn't judge the whole country by it. You'll like the ranch, dear. You'll feel as if you were in another world " "I hope so," Val interrupted quellingly. "We'll drive out there just as soon as we have breakfast." He laid his hand diffidently upon her tumbled hair.
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