The Gilded Age


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her trap, and he has been punished for it. I'm going to take him up to  
Ilium to see if he won't work steadily at one thing, and quit his  
nonsense."  
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Is she as beautiful as the newspapers say she is?"  
I don't know, she has a kind of beauty--she is not like--'  
Not like Alice?"  
Well, she is brilliant; she was called the handsomest woman in  
Washington--dashing, you know, and sarcastic and witty. Ruth, do you  
believe a woman ever becomes a devil?"  
"Men do, and I don't know why women shouldn't. But I never saw one."  
"Well, Laura Hawkins comes very near it. But it is dreadful to think of  
her fate."  
"Why, do you suppose they will hang a woman? Do you suppose they will  
be  
so barbarous as that?"  
"I wasn't thinking of that--it's doubtful if a New York jury would find a  
woman guilty of any such crime. But to think of her life if she is  
acquitted."  
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