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him and paul looked he rose quickly he said gently to i pose you ly i have a lot of yea idol then my dear since you ask it there a time in the last ten years i haven t found some nice little girl to comfort me and as long as you continue your i shall probably continue to deceive you it hard you re so id she howled wo...
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man in a green hat a very young man with ui and them on two ie leather were paid and a old man very cunning with wrinkles ii his mouth all read or trade boot and journals and waited for the joys of conversation it was the very young man now ha first journey by who began it i had a wild m hi he y if a knows the ropes th...
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got cm he pinched us ti o leg four ago i forty two fifty for it and it waa real sure value here the other day i went a store back home and asked to see a suit and the oat some band me that honest x wouldn t pot on a hired man just out of curiosity i asks him what yoa tf g for that be says d yoa that s a piece of goods...
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was and when the train stopped at an important station the men walked up and down the platform under the vast smoky roof like a stormy sky under the beside of ducks and sides of beef in the of an unknown d tb strolled abreast old friends and content at the like a call at dusk they hastened back into the smoking and...
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clean but in a good in not having to till his was moved to it he every ot and fish on us new trousers all morning th or the dim and lighted among rank and mom with crimson they slept all afternoon and tiu t played with tlie guides was serious business to the guides they did not gossip they the thick cards with a menac...
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i m going out to the d n by game three times a besides oo t to the home team he did go and support the team and the by yelling and he the he wore a cotton handkerchief about his collar he became he his month in a wide loose grin and drank out of a bottle he went to the game three times a we for one we then he on watchi...
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perfectly perfectly now d n by you write it in a paper said as be rapidly j firmly moved away however to the literary of and was on the evening he sat down to prepare a paper which would take a whole ten to read he laid out a new fifteen cent school book on his wife s sewing table set q for the event in the living roo...
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as though she was bored she must have looked t at him and he had met but she gave no she languidly pulled down the blind and he stood still a cold feeling of in his heart but on the train his pride was restored by meeting from and other smaller of the state who listened when as a from of he explained politics and the v...
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warm from five hundred of on the face of a winged it some one had drawn a in lead paper were among the on the walk like flesh were the of the last rose floated in the pool trailing an evil stain as they swelled and and beneath the marble seat the fragments carefully put was a smashed as he rode back to the hotel reflec...
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for ice and the bell who t it said and ted glasses or mixed the in one of those dismal white water which exist only in when they had finished the first round she proved by think you b could stand another you got a coming that thou she was hut a woman she knew the and perfect of drinking outside hinted to say w a old ...
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him with a strength he was mad deaf m he could not see the tables the bat he by the girl and her young when she had firmly to his ho by a connection w h a i that mother mother had been and with head thrown wide ha ve r and but that was the his and the man from said he was a bum aad lor ten with in a ai called for t...
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and blew it ter to come down to the and issues of tliis can the great error by there were workmen who young cynical men for the most part foreigners jews but the older the patient stooped and him and when be worked to his anecdote of eyes were wet bu y he out of the hall tm applause and off to his third audience of th...
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has a taste for and maybe the folks next door drop in and they sit and visit about their friends and the topics of the day then he goes to bed his conscience clear having d n by i us to the of the and to hb own bank in politics and this sane is the on and in the arts he invariably has a which makes bim pick oat the bes...
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of brand of sweet and and stable lines of and jokes to and folks to clubs and fed i uke other and then old satan a s always ke gives his tail a lively and gets in quick his dirty work he fills me up my tke backward way ke ke makes me a on sunday when the folks t t round and then b i prefer to never be a a ri t round in...
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uncle u promised to become a orator he entertained a of the men s of the road church with irish and chinese dialect stories but in nothing was he more dearly revealed as the in his lecture on facts on real estate as delivered before the class in methods at the y m ca the advocate times reported the lecture so fully tha...
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general called the princess and let it be known that be had danced with her was thrilled but not so with awe as to be silent if he was not invited by them to dinner he was yet accustomed to talking with and who entertained poets he was bright and with say remember in junior year how we a sea hack and chased down to to ...
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hosts of sir the were all the week after the dinner received sir who had come to america to buy coal the newspapers him on ireland ment naval the rate of exchange tea drinking drinking the of american women and daily life as lived by en county families sir seemed to have heard of all those topics the gave him a dinner ...
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ever entered the church except to wash the windows or repair the and a sewing which made short little for the children of the poor mis drew read aloud from earnest novels dr drew was his was gracefully e as he said it had the moat features of those noble monuments of grand old england stand as of the eternity of faith ...
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an to the was decorated with water pipes and lighted by small windows high up in the wall what saw however was the first church of he was back in the sunday school of bis boyhood he again that polite to be found only in church he recalled the case of sunday school books a humble heroine and jo a lad of be once more the...
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equal to the of all the rest of the world but they were so that they predicted to s irritation that there would some day he a third party which would give trouble to the and shook hands with three times at mentioned his extreme fondness for within a week three newspapers accounts of sterling labors for religion and all...
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with her then he discovered the to the party the boys and girls disappeared occasionally and he remembered of their drinking together from hip pocket he round the house and in each of the dozen cars waiting in the street he saw the points of light from from each of them heard high he wanted to them but standing in the ...
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on t to have a hi i officer he had that natural to command that so very very few men have and this man came out into the road and up his hand and ed the and said major he said a lot of the around here that have decided to for and we want you to join us meeting de the way yon do in the store you could b us a lot your f...
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mm d n by you ever mean to do wrong and i if you get a good that ll you up a little you ll turn out a yet but i see how i can keep you on leaned the his hands in his pockets and laughed so i m old y and i m to death but i don t want you to think yon can get away with any thou stuff sure i ve pulled some raw stuff a li...
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hinted say how about a little something to eat i know a where we could get a swell and we m t dig up a little drink that is if you ever touch the stuff but why don t you come to my room i ve some scotch not half bad ml i want to use up all your it s dam nice of you but you probably want to hit the hay sir was transf...
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paul s shoulder and cried when did hit paul glared up at him face ob george thou t you d goat back to he did not introduce his m ed at her she was a pretty weakly woman of forty two or three in an hat her was thorough but un where you staying the woman turned yawned examined her nails she ned accustomed to not being in...
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so young but she s s fine woman and she understands a fellow and she s had her own troubles yea i suppose she s one of these whose husband doesn t understand hei i i don t know maybe he was in the war up stood beside paul patting his shoulder making soft q noises honest george she s a fine woman and she s bad one of a ...
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watch the fur and if they d permit him he d wind by calling for a cheer for the and and the all together to professor be pretty nice to have as low a as that everybody d say he must be an i wonder how he got it ill bet he and dined the of the license to a fare you then addressed them some of you may fed that it s out o...
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of wheels the ran iq the marble to the c e of the hon mr front the mayor he the mayor s with a dollar he was inside demanding you remember me mr vice president of the for you say have you heard about poor well i want an order on the or whatever you call um of the city prison to take me back and see him good thanks in...
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spirit of rebellion against and solid p authors and he supposed they were famous ones too did not seem to care about a good story which would enable a to forget his troubles he sighed he noted a book three black l ah that was something like iti it be an adventure story maybe about up on the old at night he tucked th...
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by that brisk lean red headed of jokes he was too by the lump of ice in his f am t water it was too large it round and burned his nose when he tried to drink he raged that was like that of ice but be won through be kept i his till they grew tired of the jest and turned o the great of the day he reflected what s the mat...
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t go home he worried but he left mrs jones and dashed to i s lovely side demanding the next is mine oh i m so hot i m not going to dance this one then b come out and sit on the porch and get all nice and in the tender darkness with the in the house behind them he took her band she squeezed his race then relaxed i think...
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don t know s i care ao all this stuff oh i i just love in and all those do you honest well of course i go to lots of but i do like a good ri on its toes with the fellow that plays the bass fiddle it around and beating it up with the bow oh i know i do love good dance mu i love to don t you mr sure you bet not that i m ...
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a s best thrill vas in the the hair with thick so then as bait over the in it with hot water whidi along his and at last ran the ice at the the sudden burning cold on his skull j heart his chest heaved and his was an wire it was a sensation which broke the of life e looked the as he sat up the rubbed his wet hair and b...
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always he came back to and yet whatever the misery he could not regain contentment with a world which once doubted became absurd only be himself he was through with this chasing after girls by he was not so sure even of that if in miss and he had failed to find the lady kind and it did not prove that she did not exist ...
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till next week only thus did joe recognize the was him b paid up his losses and left the rather joe raised his head from the of like a seal ri ng from surf come t morrow and down to his three d n by in his cabin fragrant with of pine nor along the lake nor in the sunset clouds which presently the mountains could find t...
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miss wasn t paying too much for paper he was at once missing the persistent at the necks table was wondering what was doing now he was wondering whether after the summer s maturity of being a ted would get busy in the university he was thinking of his wife if she would only if she wouldn t be so dam satisfied with jus...
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before he that neither he nor the would be the same again ten days after his return he could not that he bad ever away nor was it at all evident to bis acquaintances that there was s new george f save that he was more irritable under the at the club and once observed that ought to be hanged oh rats he s not so bad at h...
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but in a doubtful for the sunday after the road announced a sermon by dr john drew on how the would end strikes had been ne about church going but he went to the service ful that dr drew really did have the information as to what the divine powers thought about strikes beside in the large was d n by the gives the i don...
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d be glad to hear about hi drum strode on while all the table stared at what s the idea do yon want us to ve those love and kisses or said jones do defend a lot of that are trying to take the bread and butter away from our raged professor said nothing he put mi like a mask his jaw was hard his short hair seemed his sil...
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fool as d n by the great strike was over the beaten except that seemed less cordial there do visible of s treachery to the dan the oppressive fear of was gone but a loneliness remained now he was so that to prove be wasn t be about the office for fifteen minutes looking at blue explaining to miss that this mrs scott wa...
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appreciated he so i up and said to the fellows at the club hen i do you belong to the union i think it s no the you course they re always me to join the union but i always say no sir i nothing i don t mind the but i can t stand all the old oh yes that s so but tell me did you to them oh you don t want td hear it i m p...
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of slippers with ribbon wound shoe trees and lying across them his of bringing the ash tray had just the ri t note of easy friendliness he a like would try to get funny about her bedroom d n by a but i take it he was not casual afterward of companionship was gone and be was restless with desire to touch her hand but wh...
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dreamed of her all and now f be he met her at the in the n be drove out to her flat in the late afternoon or on c he was to be at the he knew ba t and advised her about them while ihe i her feminine ignorance and praised his aad proved to know much more about bonds than he did bad and ter over old times once they and b...
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satisfied of s presence when be bad finished his dutiful dance took him aside and begged dear wouldn t like to do something for me i m all out of and the bunch want to couldn t you down to s and get some sure he said trying not to sound sullen you get to drive down with you was pointing to the thin sarcastic young hiss...
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now the whole world is filled with their so once he was to discovered agreeable for it everywhere he had a new view of his sam the were respectable people industrious people q whose ideal of happiness was an their life was by of and kisses and their set worked all the week and all week looked forward to saturday ni t w...
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and for him a shrieking and s he sat beside ber and worried he was to her along sang out hey quit crushing me he did quite know how to go on in the of a saloon and had a was by new at them wanted to go nd bad a a good drinks d n by two after the surly older m n of the took aside and here it s of my and god knows i alw...
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t attend to this one die good league the g c i tb stick ri t to it ok g c l has to l ve some here in i think it ou t to the park project and the city planning nd then too k have a social a being made up of the best p e have dances and so on as one of the best it can put the on b to apply thb business to folks so yoa...
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poor what you been worrying well you didn t seem to miss me very much by the time he bad finished bis of lying were bound again by ten that evening it that she had ever been away there was but one difference the of a respectable husband a husband yet seeing and the bunch with he had promised to to that evening and now ...
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and the at the office and e q at home and and and and wearing out worrying over a lot of that doesn t really mean a thing and being so good what do you think i m made for i could have been a dam good and here j fuss and fret and don t you i ever get tired of i get so with three meals a day three hundred and sixty five ...
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of mental control and the inner k which were immediately going to and bring power and prosperity to the unhappy nations and so would they for this precious studded hour forget the illusions of the seeming real and in the of the lying with mrs to the realm if mrs was rather than one would like one s and yet ha voice had...
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the bunch he wait in to that be was sorry didn t mean to be and to as to her interest in but in the darkness of the he that he d gone and tied himself to all over again he bad some satisfaction in taking it out on hang any why d she gone and got him these and made him all y and nervous and too many con q cut em he want...
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and mother wants to come and stay with me for a whole month and of course i do love her i va pose i do but honestly shell my style dreadful she never can learn not to and she always wants to know where i m g ng i go out and if i lie to her she always around and and finds out i ve been and she looks like patience m a ...
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going to be into joining ai thing not even by yoa we re not anybody dr b an but col nd snow thrust him with certainly we are we don t mind a little if it s the g has been talking about you a good deal you re to be a sensible clean responsible man you always have been but lately for god knows what reason i hear from all...
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don t want lo go into anything new just now a later that the of the street company were planning real estate and that and wing not d n by the con were to handle ft for i figure that is kind of about the folks are talking about you of is a rock old die bard and he probably advised the to get some other george you got to...
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such an old the man has a good heart and honestly he s awfully bright but he will to on the gas after all the training i ve him don t you think we could do with him dearest why that isn t a nice way to speak of your papa observed in the best ts manner but he was y for the first time in he pictured himself u the libera...
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if there wasn t some brisk thing he could do for her and before he could form the thou t he was asleep and aching the ni t was infinite when dawn came and the waiting seemed at an end he fell and was to have been t off his guard to have aroused by s entrance and agitated ob what is it his wife was awake her face sallow...
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on them for art philosophy and to the league most of the pro of they not all of the kind who called regular besides these hearty fellows these f pro there were the that is the men were or had been tar more generations the of banks and of the land owners the lawyers the fashionable doctors and the few old who worked no...
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door if his moral had been so weakened by that he was not quite in tbe more of the good league nor quite of the church yet was no doubt of the joy with which returned to tbe pleasures of his home and of the club ths tbe and were eventually and hesitating married for the wedding was dressed as carefully as was he was in...
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men worked beneath one roof pouring out the honest wares that would be sold up the across the the rolled out in greeting a chorus cheerful as the april dawn the song of labor in a city built it seemed for giants n there was nothing of the giant in the aspect of the man who was beginning to awaken on the porch of a du...
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her she s gone and gotten some confounded stuff that makes you sick the bath mat was wrinkled and the floor was wet his daughter took in the morning now and then he slipped on the mat and slid against the tub he said damn furiously he snatched up his of furiously he with a of the brush furiously he his plump cheeks wit...
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the meek of the school teacher the twisted silver framed glasses of the old s spectacles had huge circular of the very best glass the ear pieces were thin bars of gold in them he was the modem business man one who gave orders to clerks and drove a car and played occasional and was in regard to his bead suddenly appeare...
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all the nice folks say suppose mc heard you calling it a well that s all right now can t pull anything on her folks are common as mud even if her husband and her are i suppose you re trying to rub in your exalted social position well let me tell you that your paternal henry t doesn t even call it a i he calls it a jack...
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to business and get down to brass he marched upon them a brown haired i of twenty two just out of given to about duty sex and god and the of the gray sports suit she was now wearing ted a boy of seventeen still a baby at ten with radiant red hair and a thin skin which hinted of too much and too many ice cream did n...
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credit to when we were in college together he was just as hard iq as any of us and he s made a million good out of and hasn t been any or bought any more city than was necessary and that s a good house of his thou it ain t any mighty stone walls and it ain t worth the ninety thousand it cost him but when it comes to t...
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had a good deal of honest pride in being the of such a and in ted s intimacy with at sixteen was interested in no save those regarding the ages and of motion picture stars but as put it she was her father s daughter the between a light man like sam and a really fine character like was revealed in their appearances wa...
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and it can t be too generally understood is that what we need first last and all the time is a good sound business administration by that s right how do those front look to you fine fine t be much work for if everybody looked after their car the way you do well i do try and have some sense about it paid his bill said o...
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living in a valley interested only in one another and in the building their main street was the entrance hall with its stone floor severe marble ceiling and the windows of the shops the place on the street was the shop but this was also s one embarrassment himself he the glittering shop in the hotel and every time he p...
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want to know can i do you a favor honest no i know you re interested in getting a house not merely a place where you hang up the old bonnet but a love nest for the wife and and maybe for the out be sure and spell that b e y a n t miss the garden say did you ever stop to think that we re here to save you trouble that s...
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bottom of the file in the outer office ill just naturally b ashamed to go in there all day long making a fool of myself before my own he reasoned by the end of three days he was trained to leave his desk walk to the file take out and light a cigar without knowing that he was doing it this morning it was revealed to him...
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it was worth while to know whether the city were properly heated lighted furnished he did not know how the teachers were chosen and thou he one of the of is that we pay s that was because be had read the statement in the advocate times himself he could not have given the average salary of teachers in or anywhere else ...
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to all authorities a deserves for his risks and t he was a man with a cap like mass of short gray curls and which no matter how cut seemed shaggy below his eyes were hollows as though dollars had been against them and had left an particularly and always consulted and trusted in his slow six months ago had learned that ...
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she s to him i m already having the title traced and oh b the way remind me to morrow to have trace it now if anybody comes in looking for a cheap house remember we got to that road place off somebody if you need me m be at the hi be back by two he the ashes off his he placed a difficult letter on the pile of unfinishe...
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a great convenience for other folks might make just the difference in getting with some fellow that would put over a sale and looks nice there certainly is a mighty clever little gives the last touch of refinement and i by i guess i can afford it if i want to not going to be the only member of this family that never ...
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the way you get it here in all the and mental activity that s going on with a of live wires like the and here in the c why he s got to save his nerves by having the best nodded his head at every fifth word in the roaring and by the conclusion in s renowned humorous vein he was enchanted still at that george don t know...
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she plays the perfect lady so well that even i get and get all up in a lot of why did you say s and i didn t mean s ill tell you you know my tastes are pretty fairly simple in the matter of food at least course as you re always complaining i do like deceit cigars those de you re smoking that s all right that s a goo...
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why couldn t you and i make some excuse say business in new york and get up to four or five days before they do and just loaf by ourselves and smoke and and be natural great i great idea i admired not for fourteen years had he taken a holiday without his wife and neither of them quite believed they could commit this ...
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on him miss staring with head lifted from her t ing miss looking over her mat around at his desk in the dark sullenly as a before the bleak propriety of his butler he hated to expose his back to their laughter and in his effort to be casually merry he stammered and was friendly and out of the door but he forgot his mi...
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don t intend to suppose anything of the kind i there s plenty of fellows in my profession that stoop and hate their but if you were a little older and understood business instead of always going to the and running around with a lot of fool girls with their dresses up to their knees and powdered and painted and and god ...
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the spiritual and mental side of american they think that inventions like the and the and no that was a invention but anyway they think these mechanical in are all that we stand for whereas to a real he sees that spiritual and movements like and and and are what compose our deepest and truest wealth and maybe this new...
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and was that up stairs she ought to been asleep long ago he through the living room and stood in the that glass walled room of chairs and swinging couch in which they on sunday outside only the lights of s house and the dim presence of s favorite elm broke the softness of april night good visit with the boy getting o...
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you i he himself and himself and rubbed himself he noted a hole in the and thrust a finger through it and marched back to the bedroom a grave and citizen there was a moment of gorgeous abandon i a flash of such as he found in traffic driving when he laid out a clean collar discovered that it was in front and tore it up...
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an average cost of less than ten dollars a head of the larger cities of the land only had hesitated to submit its vices to monday and his expert corps the more of the city had to invite him mr george f had once praised him in a speech at the club but there was position from certain and ministers those whom mr monday s...
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an an extra girl for the feed could perfectly well and i have to go out and buy the flowers and fix them and set the table and order the and look at the chickens and arrange for the children to have their supper upstairs and and i simply must depend on you to go to s for the ice cream all i m going to get it all you...
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like a cake and the long brick s shop had pale blue of plaster roses in and glass shelves of kisses with all the refinement that in of eggs felt heavy and thick amid this professional and as he waited for the ice cream he decided with hot at the back of his neck that a girl customer was at him he went home in a temper ...
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figured black silk with glass buttons jones a steady looking not very memorable person with a colored yet they were all so well fed and clean they all shouted with such that seemed to be cousins and the strange thing is that the longer one knew the women the less alike they seemed while the longer one knew the men the ...
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room to the dining room made them laugh by thundering if i can t sit next to m and hold her hand under the table i won t play i m goin home in the dining room they stood embarrassed while mrs fluttered now let me see oh i was going to have some nice hand painted place cards for you but let me see mr you sit there th...
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as a as a dinner jacket if he was to come in here now he d think we were a bunch of of why i swear he wouldn t know what to think yes sir they re jealous i agreed that s so but what i mind is their lack of culture and appreciation of the beautiful if u excuse me for being now i like to give a high class lecture and...
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elephant class breathes in every line listen brother you ll never know what the high art of is till you try life s the mused that s got an elegant color to it if i do say so but it ain t got the originality of of speech the whole company sighed with sympathy and admiration chapter ix was fond of his friends be loved th...
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in was too languid evening to pursue his duty of being a though strictly moral male he back to the bridge tables he was not much thrilled when mrs a small woman proposed that they try and do some and table you know can make the spirits come honest be just me the ladies of the party had not emerged all evening but now...
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when the united states is the only nation in which the government is a moral ideal and not just a social arrangement true true weren t they ever going home he was usually delighted to have an inside view of the world of but to night he scarcely listened to s revelation if you want to go above the class the is a might...
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his mouth they all read newspapers or trade boot and shoe journals journals and waited for the joys of conversation it was the very young man now making his first by who began it say i had a wild old time in i he say if a fellow knows the ropes there he can have as wild a time as he can in new i bet you simply raised t...
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d been some mistake i thought they were putting me in the salvation army collection box at seven per each and every i i ve heard the was pretty now when i go to i always stay at the or he la first class places say any of you fellows ever stay t the at how is it oh the is a first class hotel twelve minutes of confere...
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where he belongs and doesn t try to the authority and business ability of the white man that s the i l and another thing we got to do said the man with the hat whose name was is to keep these damn foreigners out of the thank the lord we re putting a limit on these and have got to learn that this is a white man s and th...
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their legs above the water the immense tenderness of the place sank into and he murmured i d just like to sit here the rest of my life and and sit and never hear a or in the or and ted just sit i he patted paul s shoulder how does it strike you old oh it s dam good there s something sort of eternal about it for once...
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of good he lamented paul s as a but i swear i m and than when i came up here he had three weeks of at the end of the second week he began to feel calm and interested in life he planned an expedition to climb and wanted to camp at box car pond he was curiously weak yet cheerful as though he had his veins of poisonous en...
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t join it on a bet when he had played four or five holes he relaxed a bit his tobacco fluttering heart beat more and his voice to the of his hundred generations of peasant ancestors iv at least once a week mr and mrs and went to the their favorite motion picture was the which held three thousand spectators and had an o...
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well old son i finished it last evening just it out i to think you writing must have a hard job making up pieces but lord it s a pretty soft for you you certainly earn your money easy i some day when i get ready to retire guess i ll take to writing and show you boys how to do it i always used to think i could write bet...
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in his and with pleasure as he gave the man a tip of a dollar and a half he rather hoped that he was being noticed as in his newly pressed clothes with the porter carrying his suit case he at monarch he was to share a room at the hotel with w a that shrewd rustic looking dealer in farm lands together they had a noble b...
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page he gasped they had printed picture and a half column account the heading was sensation at annual land men s g f prominent in fine address he murmured reverently i guess some of the folks on heights will sit up and take notice now and pay a little tion to old vn it was the last meeting the ware presenting the clai...
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i wanted to do as a kid know what i wanted to do wanted to be a big tha s what i wanted to do but chased mt out on the road and here i m settled down settled for life not a oh who the devil started this funeral talk how bout drink and a drink wouldn do s ny yea cut the sob f said w a you boys know i m the village g ...
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