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That nice-looking young person who waited on us in the hosiery section."
Oh!" said Harriet. "He was nice-looking, wasn't he? But he looked out of place
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there, and I think he felt out of place. Did you notice how he flushed when he
asked you what size?" and the girls laughed heartily at the recollection. "But
where have you ever met him before?" Harriet asked.
"I have never met him," corrected Elizabeth, accenting the "met." "He changed a
wheel on the roadster several weeks ago one evening after I had taken Harold
down to the club. And he was very nice about it. I should say that he is a
gentleman, although his clothes were pretty badly worn."
"Yes," said Harriet, "his suit was shabby, but his linen was clean and his coat
well brushed."
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My!" exclaimed Elizabeth. "He must have made an impression on some one."
Well," said Harriet, "it isn't often you see such a nice-looking chap in the hosiery
section."
"No," said Elizabeth, "and probably if he were as nice as he looks he wouldn't be
there."
Whereupon the subject was changed, and she promptly forgot Mr. Jimmy
Torrance. But Jimmy was not destined soon to forget her, for as the jobless days
passed and he realized more and more what an ass he had made of himself, and
why, he had occasion to think about her a great deal, although never in any
sense reproaching her. He realized that the fault was his own and that he had
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