[Cap’n Warren’s Wards by Joseph C. Lincoln]@TWC D-Link bookCap’n Warren’s Wards CHAPTER X 39/47
And even then it is not advisable.
All their customs and habits of thought are different.
No! Emphatically, no! And the girl, if she is sensible and well reared, as I have said, will understand it is impossible." "My soul and body! Then you mean to tell me that she _must_ look out for some chap in her crowd? If she ain't got but just enough to keep inside the circle--this grand whirlamagig you're tellin' me about--if she's pretendin' up to the limit of her income or over, then it's her duty, and her ma and pa's duty, to set her cap for a man who's nigher the center pole in the tent and go right after him? Do you tell me that? That's a note, I must say!" Mrs.Dunn's foot beat a lively tattoo on the rug.
"I don't know what you mean by a 'note,'" she commented, with majestic indignation.
"I have not lived in South Denboro, and perhaps my understanding of English is defective.
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