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Those Extraordinary Twins

CHAPTER IX
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It destroyed his chances with Rowena.

Those chances had been growing, right along, for two months.

Rowena had partly confessed that she loved him, but wanted time to consider.

Now the tender dream was ended, and she told him so the moment he was sober enough to understand.

She said she would never marry a man who drank.
"But I don't drink," he pleaded.
"That is nothing to the point," she said, coldly, "you get drunk, and that is worse." [There was a long and sufficiently idiotic discussion here, which ended as reported in a previous note.].


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