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Elfrid!"
Loud hiccup from Uncle Pentstemon, momentary consternation followed by
giggle from Annie.
The narration at Mr. Polly's elbow pursued a quiet but relentless
course. "Directly the new doctor came in he said: 'Everything must be
took out and put in spirits--everything.'"
Willie,--audible ingurgitation.
The narration on the left was flourishing up to a climax. "Ladies,"
she sez, "dip their pens in their ink and keep their noses out of
it!"
"
"
Elfrid!"--persuasively.
Certain people may cast snacks at other people's daughters, never
having had any of their own, though two poor souls of wives dead and
buried through their goings on--"
Johnson ruling the storm: "We don't want old scores dug up on such a
day as this--"
"
Old scores you may call them, but worth a dozen of them that put them
to their rest, poor dears."
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