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too. I'm sorry. I hoped you had only men and women; everybody equal;
no differences in rank."
The girl stopped with a pillow in her teeth and the case spread open
below it, contemplating him from under her brows with a slightly puzzled
expression. She released the pillow and said:
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Why, they are all equal. Where's any difference in rank?"
If you call a factory girl a young lady, what do you call the
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President's wife?"
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Call her an old one."
Oh, you make age the only distinction?"
There ain't any other to make as far as I can see."
Then all women are ladies?"
Certainly they are. All the respectable ones."
Well, that puts a better face on it. Certainly there is no harm in a
title when it is given to everybody. It is only an offense and a wrong
when it is restricted to a favored few. But Miss--er--"
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