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"I've had so many of them," she said; "I don't know. Ask Maria." Maria responded with the sweetest readiness. "Dear Zoe, you are so slow! Cheesecakes." Mr. Gallilee patted Zoe's head as encouragingly as if she had discovered the right answer by herself. "That's right ices and cheese-cakes," he said. "We tried cream-ice, and then we tried water-ice.
You must know that all the time there were plates of radishes, olives, celery, and roasted almonds set about that every one ate of without much reference to the courses. The talking and the feasting were at their height, but there was a little flagging of the appetite, perhaps, when it received the stimulus of a water-ice flavored with rum. Makely a roast turkey that looked as large as an ostrich.
When a man finds, after anxious and varied experiments, that a water-ice is the only form of nourishment his stomach will retain, he is driven to the conviction that there is something wrong, and that he had better see the doctor. The result of the young athlete's visit to the doctor was that he mournfully laid down the dumb-bells and the foil, eschewed gymnastics, and took to travel.
I 'ain't seen nothing but slaving and drudging and pinching all my life, while other girls are strutting the Avenue in their furs and sleeping mornings as long as they want under eider-down quilts. Sure, when a man like Jerry Beck comes along with a carriage-check instead of a Subway-ticket I can thaw up to him like a water-ice, and I ain't ashamed of it, neither."
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