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their situation.
"
Why do you like doing that?" asked young Caddles.
I gather the embarrassment continued until the swain remembering his
manhood, vehemently, with loud shouts, threats, and virile blasphemies,
such as became the occasion, bade young Caddles under penalties put them
down. Whereupon young Caddles, remembering his manners, did put them
down politely and very carefully, and conveniently near for a resumption
of their embraces, and having hesitated above them for a while, vanished
again into the twilight ...
"But I felt precious silly," the swain confided to me. "We couldn't
'ardly look at one another--bein' caught like that.
"
"
"
Kissing we was--you know.
And the cur'ous thing is, she blamed it all on to me," said the swain.
Flew out something outrageous, and wouldn't 'ardly speak to me all the
way 'ome...."
The giant was embarking upon investigations, there could be no doubt.
His mind, it became manifest, was throwing up questions. He put them to
few people as yet, but they troubled him. His mother, one gathers,
sometimes came in for cross-examination.
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