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I then sat down to my lonely Vigil. But it was only Carter Brooks, who said he had invited himself to stay all night, and the Club was sickning, as all the old people were playing cards and the young ones were paired and he was an odd man. He then sat down on the cushion with the revolver under it, and said: "Gee whiz! Am I on the Cat? Because if so it is dead. It moves not."
It was a painfull evening, with Sis shut away in her room, and father cuting the ends off cigars in a viscious maner. Mother was NON EST, and had I not had my memories, it would have been a Sickning Time. I sat very still and waited until father softened, which he usualy does, like ice cream, all at once and all over.
I could see that he had her hand under the table. It was sickning. Jane came to see me after lunch. The wedding was that night, and I had to sit through silver vegatable dishes, and after-dinner coffee sets and plates and a grand piano and a set of gold vazes and a cabushon saphire and the bridesmaid's clothes and the wedding supper and heaven knows what.
But to my greif he refused very snappishly and without a Farewell slamed out of the house, leaving his hat and so forth in the hall. A bitter night ensued. For I shall admit that terrable thoughts filled my mind, although how perpetrated I knew not. Would those who loved me stoop to such depths as to poizon my afianced? And if so, whom? The very thought was sickning.
All through the refreshments I could feel that his eyes were on me. And I hated him. It was all well enough for Jane to say he was handsome. She wasn't going to have to marry him. I detest dimples in chins. I always have. And anybody could see that it was his first mustache, and soft, and that he took it round like a mother pushing a new baby in a perambulater. It was sickning.
Would anybody have beleived it? To pick a name out of the air, so to speak, and off a malted milk tablet, and then to find that it actualy belonged to some one was sickning. "It may not be the one you know" I said desperately. "It it's a common name. There must be plenty of Valentines." "Sure there are, lace paper and Cupids lots of that sort.
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