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Whitwell." "Mr. Whit'ell!" said Mrs. Durgin, concentrating in her accent of his name the contempt she could not justly pour out on the others. "Oh," Jeff went on, "I did think that I could take hold with you, if you could bring yourself to let me off this last year at Harvard." "Jeff!" said his mother, reproachfully. "You know you don't mean that you'd give up your last year in college?"
Well, I had to lend the letters round so much, anyway, it was a kind of a relief to have 'em in the paper, where everybody could see 'em, and be done with it. Mr. Whit'ell here, he fixes 'em up so's to leave out the family part, and I guess they're pretty well thought of."
But a menacing suspense followed his words. His mother broke out at last: "You asked Cynthy Whit'ell to marry you! And she said she would! Well, I can tell her she won't, then!" "And I can tell you she will!" Jeff stormed back. He rose to his feet and stood over his mother. She began steadily, as if he had not spoken. "If that designin' " "Look out, mother! Don't you say anything against Cynthia!
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