Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 221
hat are you driving at? Suppose. said Canton Quimby, with asmile that would have sugar-coated his bitter-est criticism — suppose you had shown him rueful laugh. Instead of opening his mouthI was ingeniously shutting it. Something like that, Quimby smilinglyassented. How much does he know about the… … ■FRED CROSSED THE BROOK AND CAUGHT HIM UP IN HIS ARMS I was only trying to loosen the wires fromthe cork, before opening the bottle, Fred said,tossing back the figure of speech. Instead of that you were all the whiletwisting them tighter. You let him commithimself to one denial after another, in…
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