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The girl interrupted him with an amused laugh, and said:
"Nobody to protect me? Bless you, I don't need it. I'm not afraid.
I might be if I was alone, because I do hate ghosts, and I don't deny it.
Not that I believe in them, for I don't. I'm only just afraid of them."
"How can you be afraid of them if you don't believe in them?"
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Oh, I don't know the how of it--that's too many for me; I only know it's
so. It's the same with Maggie Lee."
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Who is that?"
One of the boarders; young lady that works in the factry."
She works in a factory?"
Yes. Shoe factory."
In a shoe factory; and you call her a young lady?"
Why, she's only twenty-two; what should you call her?"
I wasn't thinking of her age, I was thinking of the title. The fact is,
I came away from England to get away from artificial forms--for
artificial forms suit artificial people only--and here you've got them
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