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he instant she was beyond their hearing. "I must say, you didn't

I should say she was almost purely potential. She's not so much th

rom the art editor and the publisher of Every Other Week. "You have got to tell me just how

re plain-minded. I'm a little puzzled by her attitude toward her own beauty. She doesn't live her beauty any more tha

tand. You mean sh

d fastidiously. "Isn't there some word that

ll if you keep on. Now, tell me how she really impressed you. Do

t Every Other Week was; she had read the stories in it; but I'm n

g that! What do you

e, common-sense, coh

ou mean that s

t, when it came to companionship, she would be just

shade-trees to dramatise her inference. "Then she is the slyest of all possible pusses! Did s

ceive me so far

in hand myself to-morrow, and

m their more joyous behaviour that he kept his wife from spending as much money as she would naturally have done, and that, while he was not perhaps exactly selfish, he was forgetful of her youth, of the difference i

u decide about h

st below the hotel where they're stopping, and we've started an evening

haracter-h

as you call it. I think she shows out h

dissimulation in

eelings. Don't you think it would have been better for her not to have l

much, then, and she probably would

on, if she gives her mind to it; but I think I should prefer a

what to say to this, an

don't mean that she's rude about it, but she seems to set herself so square across the way, and you come up with a kind o

egan to laugh quite uncontrollably, and I laughed on and on. Mrs. Marc

s her own way all the time. I know it was her idea to have him go home and leave them here, and of course she made him think it was his. She saw that as long as he was here, and anxious to get back to his 'stock,' ther

t is why you di

dness would be all right; it would be amusing; she would turn it to account and make it seem humorous. Bu

hat she has

charm of a certain kind, but it's a very peculiar kin

mes, my dear,

its charm, even w

ot so sure

r I shall lose all my faith in you. If I could

ou after no

all the hotels and see if there is not some young

young man

d be. One young man is as good as a t

d and selfish and greedy. Shall I go round exploring h

h her. I am not sure she is worth it; I am not