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"She is," he said, "but you are more than half mother, with your unexpectednesses." "I love to be more than half mother!" cried Francie, casting herself violently about my neck and imbedding me in the haycock. "Thank you, dear, but pull me up now. It's supper-time." Billy picked up the books and the rug and made preparations for the brief journey to the house.
"Richard," said Anthony Rockwall, "what do you pay for the soap that you use?" Richard, only six months home from college, was startled a little. He had not yet taken the measure of this sire of his, who was as full of unexpectednesses as a girl at her first party. "Six dollars a dozen, I think, dad." "And your clothes?" "I suppose about sixty dollars, as a rule."
Beyond the skyline you may find a dynamite cartridge, a drunken tinker, a mad dog, or a shilling which some person has dropped; and any one of these unexpectednesses may be potent to urge the traveler down a side street and put a crook in the straight line which had been his life, and to which he had become miserably reconciled.
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