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know what you are and thinks you re just a business man he gets to shooting off his mouth about or literature or foreign trade conditions and you just ease in something like when i was in college course i got my b a in and all that oh it puts an awful in their but there wouldn t be any class to saying i got the degre...
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if he ms to study law he could not marry for years and ir distinctly a nice girl one didn t kiss her one didn t ink about her that way at all unless one was going to ha but she was a con she was always ready to go walking always content to hear his on the great things he was going to do the distressed poor whom be wou...
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him well maybe it wasn t as li t as went to lunch with and didn t have much chance to diet oh you needn t to grin like a if it wasn t for me watching out ud an eye on our diet i m the only member of this family that the value of for breakfast i stooped over her story while he and down the apple one thing i ve done c...
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of known in and rome were talking ia s library s a city with gigantic gigantic buildings gigantic machines gigantic meditated i hate your city it has all the beauty out of life it is one big railroad station with all the taking tickets for the best dr said placidly roused i m hanged if it is you make me sick with you...
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do i american and i don t think it s nice to be funny about a matter like that v l think wonderful it must be to speak three languages so useful and and with people like that i don t see why we invite the well now is a mighty up and coming yes i know but a admit a hasn t got the class of poetry or real estate but ju...
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though it weighed ten pounds and read it as though it were a hundred words long he did not bend from his dignity but he growled see if he s around from the back room be brought an immensely old young wan a quiet sharp eyed man in tan silk checked hanging open and burning brown mr mr said only but bis in and contemptuou...
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leaned back on their heels put their hands in their trousers pockets and proclaimed their views with the of a prosperous male eating a thoroughly statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever now ni tell you said way i figure ft is this and i can speak by the book because i ve talked to a lot of doctors a...
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slightly ending it but the the dr ed back into cautious reality had recently been on a lecture tour among small towns and he chuckled awful good to get back to i certainly been seeing some towns i mean course the folks there are the best on earth but those main street are slow and you fellows can t hardly appreciate w...
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talking talking white he dam fool to be eating all this not and discovered that he was again the sickly of melted ice cream on his plate there was no magic in his friends he was not uplifted when produced from his treasure house of the information that the symbol for raw rubber k c which turns or c h suddenly without...
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asked in a learned tone do you like it in the we are very happy on the hi er plane we are glad that you are studying this great truth of replied the circle moved with an awed creaking of stays and suppose si pose there were something to this had a different worry suppose was really one of these had for a literary alwa...
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old like me to go off and get it out of his system he tried to sound paternal then when you and the arrive i figured maybe i mi t up to just a few days ahead of you i d be ready for a real bat see how i mean he her with large sounds with smiles like a popular preacher blessing an congregation like a humorous his of e...
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i m not a bit proud of or of paul about his horrid love affairs he was silent he maintained his bad temper at a high level of outraged nobility all the four blocks home at the door he left in self and the lawn with a shock it was revealed to him i wonder if she was right if she was partly right must have him to it was...
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neither not by a long shot that s a fact and i guess the hotel business feels it that s one good thing though these that ve been charging five a day yes and maybe for a rotten room are going to be dam glad to get four and maybe j ve you a little service that s a fact say hotels i hit the st francis at san for the fir...
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anything in particular for or to anybody in particular but pure selling the shop talk roused paul though he was a player of and an unhappy husband he was also a very able of tar he listened to the fat man s remarks on the value of house organs and as a method of up the boys out on the road and he himself offered one or...
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hotel which had been built since bis last he stared up at it muttering twenty two hundred rooms and twenty two hundred that s got everything in the world beat lord their must be well suppose price of rooms is four to eight dollars a day and i suppose maybe some ten and four times twenty two hundred say six times twe...
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and he to their cottage over the wet grass and pine roots in the darkness rejoiced that he did not have to explain to his wife where he had been all evening they did not talk much the nervous and of the club dropped from them but when they did talk they slipped into the intimacy of college days once they drew their up ...
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you you re a orator and a good and there was no formal entertainment provided for the last evening had planned to go home but that afternoon the of suggested that and w a have tea with them at the inn were not to his wife and he earnestly attended them at least twice a year but they were sufficiently to make him fee...
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the under the eyes of the other guests and the too attentive when did venture tables got in their way and they sou t to cover embarrassment by heavy at the as the girl handed out their hats they smiled at her and hoped that she a cool and expert judge would feel that they were gentlemen they at one another who owns the...
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of such men that it s the most stable the greatest of our cities new york also has its thousands of real folks but new york is cursed with foreigners so are and san oh we have a golden of cities and with their renowned with its great and soap and with steel city and and that open their gates on the bosom of the ocean ...
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that we also stand second in the manufacture of butter sixth in the giant realm of and and somewhere about third in cheese leather tar breakfast food and our greatness however lies not alone in prosperity but equally in that public spirit that forward looking and brotherhood which has marked ever since its foundation b...
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dwellings knocked together and the entrance hall resembled a cellar yet the who was free of the of the club entered with embarrassment he nodded to tbe an ancient proud negro with brass buttons and a blue tail coat and through the ball trying to look like a member sixty men bad come to the dinner they made islands and ...
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to the last out for giving paul the benefit of with the good old would like paul and better than some boy he insisted but mrs interrupted his observations with yes perhaps i think try to get some and when she was quite ready she invited dr j t the and a respectable lawyer named with glittering wives nor belonged to t...
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from now on said it beats all get out meditated that man of how hard it is for some people to get things straight here th call this fellow lord when it ought to be sir is that a fact well l sir eh that s what you call um eh well sir i m glad to know that later he informed his it s b a goat the way some folks that just ...
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you didn t say anything about it to mr did you no honest i didn t just made a bluff about having to lunch some time well oh dear i don t want to hurt their feelings but i don t see how i could stand another evening like this one and suppose somebody like dr and mrs came in when we had the there and thought th were frie...
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that always please pay attention just say with god all things are possible whenever you feel discouraged and will you read the next if you d pay attention you wouldn t lose your gigantic bees that in a of started from his open eyed nap thanked the teacher f ff the privilege of listening to her splendid teaching a...
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brisk and created a by gaining control of banks mills land mines out of the dozen contradictory which together make up the true and complete none is so powerful and enduring yet none so to the citizens as the small still dry polite cruel of the william and for that tiny the other labor and die most of the castles ot th...
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course mr you re and maybe you feel these would be but honestly i believe they d bring home the bacon folded his hands on his comfortable little and like an aged may i say first that i have been very much pleased by your analysis of the situation mr as you it s necessary in my position to be and perhaps endeavor to mai...
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was doubt for even in speeches the city there was and like writing poetry but now jones shouted across the dining room here s the new of the first state the eminent of supplies chuckled wonder you mix with common folks after holding s and the was at last willing to discuss buying a house in when the sunday school can w...
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faced priest of private was a in the sun she danced into the house she flung herself into s lap when he was reading she his paper and laughed at him when he e that he hated a er as he hated a broken contract she was seventeen now her ambition was to be a she did not merely attend the showing of every feature she also r...
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he saw the points of light from from each of them heard high gi es he wanted to them but standing in the snow peering the dark comer be did not dare he tried to be when he had returned to the front hall he the boys say if any of you are thirsty there s some ale oh i thanks they condescended he sought his wife in the an...
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private in the war but everybody knew that was because of the jealousy of his captain and he ought to have been a high officer he had that natural ability to command that so very very few men have and this m an came out into the road and held up bis hand and stopped the and said major be said there s a lot of the arou...
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it was necessary to introduce about planning and stores to pretend that he wasn t taking any more to wait and look as bored as a player at a time when the failure to secure a key lot threatened his whole plan to all this was added a nerve quarrel with his secret associates in the deal they did not wish and to have any ...
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mr i didn t intend to pull anything crooked just wanted the firm to have all the wait now this may all be true but i ve been having a lot of complaints about you now i don t s you ever mean to do wrong and i think if you just get a good lesson you up a little turn out a yet but i don t see how i can keep you on leaned...
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s anything that george f or i can do to help you call on us but show a little speed anyway well at that it might not be so bad if you or i talked to him t he might not understand he s one of these he can t come down to cases and lay his cards on the table and talk straight out from the shoulder like you or i that s rig...
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kings against of gilded oak he enjoyed the crowd pretty women good solid fellows who were liberal he gasped he stared and turned away and stared again three tables off with a doubtful sort of woman a woman at once and withered was paul and paul was supposed to be in selling tar the woman was tapping his hand at him and...
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have some for your position in the community the idea of your going around places into a female s eyes like a love sick i can understand a fellow slipping once but i don t pr se to see a fellow that s been as with me as you have getting started on the downward path and os from his wife even as a one as to go woman chas...
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the leading of the bird of paradise company playing this week at the and the mayor of the hon thundered when we manage to this celebrated off his lovely of beautiful and i got to admit i right into his and told him how the appreciated the high class artistic performance he s giving us and don t forget that the of the...
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say you got to hand it to little this time better talk careful you are now addressing the vice president of the oh v pretty nice is the new president but when he s away little takes the and em and the no matter if they re the governor himself and listen it puts him in solid with big men like and george paul ii i ...
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they were famous ones too did not seem to care about telling good story which would enable a fellow to forget his troubles he sighed he noted a book the three black by joseph ah that was something like it it would be an adventure story maybe about up on the old house at night he tucked the book under his arm he down ...
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great joke george is while a grin went round the table revealed the shocking truth he had seen out of a motion picture at noon th it up with a hundred variations a hundred ihey said that he had gone to the during business hours he didn t so much mind but he was annoyed by that brisk lean red headed explains of jokes h...
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like a oh no i mean not really well i ll bet you he glanced at her smooth hands her and caught the her hands together with a a slim white which delighted him and i do love to play i mean i like to drum on the piano but i haven t had any real training mr used to say i would ve been a good if i d had ai training but ...
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kind of a count or something kind of a no account i guess you mean who s telling this and he said he knew my a s papa s folks in and they had a big house right on a lake doubtfully maybe you don t believe it sure no really sure i do why not don t think i m you honey but every time i ve noticed you i ve said to myself ...
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dr john drew he was a wicked man and from the int of miss an old b who had to be endured as the penalty attached to eating a large dinner you aren t going to go and get are you she he wanted to her he i don t have to take anything off this dam well let s get it over as quick as we can and home and kick ourselves for ...
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to jail and how i d like to do six gun frontier town sleep under the stars be a regular man with he men like joe paradise so he came to again stood on the wharf before the again into the delicate and water while the pines the mountains glowed a leaped and fell in a sliding circle he hurried to the guides as to h...
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you all the time i wish i knew the woods like you do say what s the name of that little red rubbing his back joe regarded the flower well some folks call it one thing and some calls it another i always just call it pink flower ceased thinking as turned into blind he was in weariness his plump legs seemed to go on by wi...
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to come and her face flushed her dead voice something of the shrill energy of the old she wound up with a furious it s the blessing of god himself that paul should be in prison now and torn and by punishment so that he may yet save his soul and so other wicked men these horrible after women and lust may have an example...
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seven out of eleven in the new to i chapter the strike turned into two can s and red began late in with a walk out of girls and in protest against a of wages the newly formed union of workers went out partly in sympathy and partly in demand for a forty hour week they were followed by the union industry was tied up and...
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workmen if tbey had any p he con he wondered if there was g to be a riot he drove toward the starting point of the parade a of limp and faded grass known as street pa halted his car the park aod streets were with men in blue shirts old men with c them them stirred like a boiling pat moved tjie i could hear the soldiers...
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i thought you always said these so called people were the worst of rats i woman never can understand the different of a word depends on how you mean it and it pay to be too about anything now these honest they re not such bad e ie just foolish they don t understand the con of and pro t the way we business men do but s...
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impress her by being learned about copper the of passing pipes a lead collar and sleeve and flashing them with copper and the advantages of over ot roof you have to know so much in real estate i she ed he promised that the roof repaired within two days do you mind my from your he asked heavens he stood a moment at the...
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his own country and his old hide he s so blame modest that he never lets folks know the kind of an he travels with when he goes abroad well during the strike drum comes up to our table all up fit to kill in his nice cap n s uniform and somebody says to him the strike well be up like a pigeon and he so s you could hear ...
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do let me stay i ll gallop down to the and buy some stuff cold chicken maybe or cold turkey and we can have a nice little supper and afterwards if you want to chase me out i ll be good and go like a lamb yes it would be nice she said nor did withdraw her hand he squeezed it trembling and toward his coat at the he...
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of vi was that his wife would l am of the affair h e was certain that she knew specific about tn p ti s he d something indefinite for years she had been bored by anything more than a kiss yet she was hurt by any in his irritable interest and now he had no interest rather a be jo faithful to he was distressed by the s...
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as ted and as as chorus men but powerful to dance and to mind tbe and smoke and he tried to be one of them he cried good work but his voice apparently enjoyed the con of the dancing she to their bland and casually kissed them at the end of each dance hated her for the moment he saw her as middle aged le studied tee th...
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the recent snow came up still a george cold again to night what do you hear from the wife r i she s fine but her sister is still pretty ck say better come in and have dinner with ns to night george oh oh thanks have to go out suddenly he could not endure s of the more interesting about totally uninteresting problems h...
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these enthusiastic that always things d you realize you re throwing in the as fast as you can and you eat one right another better cut it out for a while said that good old was a prince and yes he would cut it out and thereafter he lifted a and took a drink and bad a terrific quarrel with when she caught him affectiona...
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business to folks big enough so you can t reach em otherwise then if that don t work the g c l can finally send a little around to inform folks that get too that th got to to decent standards and quit shooting off mouths so free don t it sound like the organization could do a great work we ve already got some of the st...
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he would get of the case he bad bought the week before and you really are glad to see me why you poor what you been worrying about you didn t seem to miss me veiy much by the time be had finished his of lying they were firmly bound again by ten that evening it seemed in that she had ever been away there was but one dif...
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in all the years we ve been m failed to keep a complete account of every penny we ve no maybe that s the trouble with us what in the world do you mean oh i don t mean anything only t p an dam sick and tired of all this routine and at the office arid expenses a t h om e and and and and wearing f out w over a lot of v...
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and green with three strings of glass beads and large folding eye glasses from a black ribbon was a of refinement mrs was introduced by the president of the league of the higher illumination an young woman with a yearning voice white and a she said that mrs would now make it plain to the simplest intellect how the sun ...
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was only with an effort that he made himself agreeable well i didn t mean to get sore george do you realize that we can t go like this getting farther and farther apart and you and to me i just t know what s going to he had a s pi for her bewilderment he thought of how many deep and tender thin would be hurt if they re...
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we could more or less stand a if it wasn t too long a one not over a foot he kissed her with careless he forgot the of her demands he stretched in a large chair and felt that he had beautifully come home he was he told her what a noble and misunderstood man hi was and how superior to and the men of their acquaintance ...
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she was younger in years than himself yet it was sickening to have her yearning up at him with rolling great eyes as if he shuddered his own aunt were making love to him he fretted inwardly i m through with this around i m going to cut her out she s a dam decent nice woman and i don t want to hurt her but it ll hurt a...
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romantic and sounding occupation he was an intense large man with a boiling of black hair and a thick black the newspapers often his operations be was professor of in the state university he went to dinner at the very best houses on royal ridge and he was said to be worth several hundred thousand dollars it was to to h...
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ve come in to day if the committee hadn t tried to me but by god as long as i m a free bom independent american now george you re talking exactly like the german furnace man oh i am am ii then i won t talk at all he longed that evening to see to be strengthened by her sympathy when all the family were up stairs he got...
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soft whispers bim he good lord what have i d ie just played with the bunch and called down drum about being such a high and ty never catch me people and trying to make them t my ideas he could not stand the strain before long he admitted that he would like to flee back to the security of provided there was a decent an...
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bag down to the kitchen for ice he felt dramatic in this late night expedition but as he the of ice with the dagger like pick he was cool steady mature and the old friendliness was in his voice as be patted the ice bag into place on her there there be better now he retired to bed but he did not sleep he heard her groan...
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the bearded in a musical comedy both of them their bands and looking foolishly sagacious dr ae i m sorry old man but it s acute we ought to operate of course you must decide but there s no question as to what has to be done did not get all the force of it he well i st we could get ha ready in a o days probably ted t to...
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dr strange in ite gown and head bending over the steel table with its and then nurses holding and cotton and a thing just a chin and a of in the midst of which was a square of sallow flesh with a a little bloody at the edges from the a cluster of like clinging he ut the door with it may be that his repentance of the ni...
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boyhood he found out something which can bo longer be concealed in fact be discovered the inward n nature of a man whom we have accepted as a real and as one of us gentlemen i cannot trust my voice to say it so z have written it down he ed a large and on it in huge c was the legend george oh you i the cheered they la...
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bath mat was wrinkled and the floor was wet daughter took in the morning now and then he on the mat and slid against the tub he said furiously he snatched i his of cream he with a of the brush furiously he his with a safety it pulled the blade was dull ha oh oh damn iti he through the cabinet for a packet of new bla...
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and be some blooming kind of a or or some damn lord and ted s just as he wants to go to and he doesn t want to go to only one of the three that knows her own mind is can t understand how i ever came to have a pair of children like and ted i may not be any a james j shake but i do know my own mind and i do keep right on...
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talking to a of mine that s working for the associated oh there s the sweetest little babies that come to the and i feel as though i ought to be doing thing worth while like that what do you mean worth if you get to be and maybe you would if you kept up and didn t go off to and every evening i guess you ll find fiv...
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lower edge of it he wore a high button a button and a pin and none of it mattered he was and swift and flushed hia eyes which he believed to be candidly eager but he not over gentle he waved his band at poor and yes i guess we re pretty ridiculous and and i rather guess our new b some it and while youve admiring your l...
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you most folks don t ai how tint it is to have a good and regular habits be back bout usual time i guess he kissed her he didn t quite kiss he laid l a her cheek he hurried out to the muttering lord wliat a family and now is going to get pathetic on me because we don t train with this oat t oh lord sometimes i d uke t...
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know how you d fed about it with ab your with es and so on and i m lad you fed that way what the country just at this present juncture a college president nor a lot of ng with affairs but a good sound economical administration that will ve us a to have something like a decent yes it generally realized that even in c...
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cars then the the darting traffic the and of marble and polished granite it was big and in anything in jewels muscles wealth or words he was for a q moment the and almost unselfish lover of he thought of the factory of the river with its strangely banks of the hills to the north and all the fat and big and comfortable...
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dead sure there will be no in getting him to pay for title so now for heaven s sake let s get busy no make that so now let s go to it and get down no that s enough you can tie those sentences a little when yon pe em miss your this is the version of his i ch he received from miss that co homes for bids avenue ft d s...
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pool room he ran over the list of were about to he sent thomas a street car played at real estate in spare to on ride street prospects were unworthy the of but he had his d n by ment of and these him ow of be bad in discovering a new of he stopped smoking at least once a he went with it tbe solid be was admitted tbe o...
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know whether the police force was too or too small or it was in alliance with gambling and he knew the means of buildings and the relation of to but he did not know how many there were in the bow they were trained and paid or how complete their i he sang the advantages of of to homes but he did not know he did not kno...
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foresight he was a man with a cap like of shut gray and clothes which no matter how well cot seemed shaggy below his were hollows as silver dollars bad been pressed a them and had left an particularly and always consulted and in his slow six months ago had learned that a in the district known as was talking of opening ...
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of unfinished work that he might not fail to attend to it that for three now he had placed the same letter on the unfinished he on a sheet of yellow paper the see apt h gave him an agreeable feeling of having seen about the apartment house doors he discovered that he was smoking another cigar he threw it away protestin...
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the call a rotten dull ve old hole not one good in the place you couldn t hire me to join show that no member of the has ever refused to the union and of those who are elected six seven per cent resign from the and are thereafter heard to say in the drowsy of the union the would be a pretty good if it were more ve th...
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that di i guess about fix you george i i sought for amiable in answer he stopped stared at the door paul was coming in cried see you later boys and hastened across he was just then neither tlie sulky child of the ing porch the domestic tyrant of the breakfast table the of the conference nor the good fellow the and r ...
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could cot their beads you d find that one third of cm are i satisfied with wives and and and their a d n by one fed of but wont admit h and are miserable and know it tbe game and they re bored by wives and think their are fools at least when they come to forty or for five they re bored and they bu and d go why do yo...
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blame much their ample discussion of every detail of the ter led to speak of electric flat irons and bed for being so old fashioned as still to use a water bottle and he announced that he would have i the sleeping porch at once he had enormous and poetic admiration thou very little understanding of all mechanical devic...
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of a bnt of there was no doubt ind as a had to the his ted to a twin six and an established position in the gentry the bad won from his family by of a new car as they realized that he to buy one this year ted lamented oh the old boat as if it d had and scratching its off mrs said raged if you re too much of a hi and yo...
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to and of being by like be to be at die little damp where we in old he waa bowing them around like he waa a i what we teach you i how to your lodge how to how to to a lady to o how to make how to big to how to create a personality how to become a rational powerful and original how to be a man i i him what be waa doing...
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of a lot of never gets you no sense supposing there s a lot of real facts to take into look here q i mean just just yoa in your and some rival real estate man some that hated came in i don t hate any but suppose you don t intend to suppose anything of the there plenty of fellows in my profession that stoop and hat...
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they don t see the spiritual and mental side of american they think that inventions like the and the and no that was a invention but they think these mechanical in are all that we stand for whereas to a real he sees that ir and movements and ro n and and are compose oar deepest and truest wealth and maybe this new pri...
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by ashes or by the fire irons were of polish and the wm like in a shop desolate lifeless of against the wall was a with another piano lamp bat no oat used it save the hard of the contented them their store of records them feel wealthy and and all th knew of creating music was the nice of a needle the books on the table...
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and full of those are saying now that i the go show that i in it for coin well now listen folks i m going to give those birds a they can stand ri t up here and tell me to my face that i m a and a liar and a only if they do if they dot don t faint with surprise if some of those rum get one good swift from with all the...
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affair some of the keenest and the brightest bunch of little women in town it was so absorbing an occasion that be almost forgot his desire to nm off to with paul thou he bad been bom in the village of had risen to that social plane on which hosts have as many as four people at dinner planning it for more than an or tw...
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of over tbe moved grimly toward the crowd of two men followed him aa as a cat and say i want to to mr see him for i want to talk to him her s card it was a beautiful card an engraved card a card in the black and the red announcing that mr george f was estates rents the it as though it ed ten pounds and read it aa thoug...
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a and yet like a hey want a little tap the folks come bustling into the dining room moving each a of an inch rushing back with on her face her gray and silver lace party frock protected by a mn at him and him certainly well in a loose i think the d n by iii tbe filled him with whirling behind which he was aware of to...
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he knows nothing whatever now you said way i figure it is this and i can by the book because i ve talked to a lot of doctors and that ought to know and the way i see it is that it s a good thing to get rid of the saloon bnt th ought to let a fellow have beer and light observed what isn t generally realized is that it s...
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straight across the boards and yo know what ow that the agent that i call be tliat prince d n by there t be just one that writes em must be a big board of ink in conference but anyway now him he doesn t write for he writes for regular he writes for me and i tip my to the only thing is i wonder if it the goods coarse l...
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rouse bim mrs was pretty and was not an of women except as to their tastes in furnished houses to rent he divided them into real ladies working women old and chickens he over charms but he was of that all of them save the women of his own family were different and mysterious yet he had known by instinct that could be a...
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shook himself what the deuce is the with me this he patted s hand to indicate that be hadn t anything improper by it and demanded of say see if can get to us some of his poetry talk iq to him tell him com a m a little the u ts were on the sat on the fronts of chairs in that determined suspense a wife that as soon as t...
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ct each an range a copper link a f am and very m maid everything about the was e modem and everything was c o m p a the the were calling on the at the it as a venture to call on the sometimes z a was an active blown hi i when she lo be good she was nervously her co ta on people were and of accepted that s you said...
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