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The March Family Trilogy

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I'm only analyzing the house-agent and exonerating Fulkerson." "Well, I don't believe he told them just what we wanted; and, at any rate, I'm done with agents.

Tomorrow I'm going entirely by advertisements." VIII.
Mrs.March took the vertebrate with her to the Vienna Coffee-House, where they went to breakfast next morning.

She made March buy her the Herald and the World, and she added to its spiny convolutions from them.

She read the new advertisements aloud with ardor and with faith to believe that the apartments described in them were every one truthfully represented, and that any one of them was richly responsive to their needs.

"Elegant, light, large, single and outside flats" were offered with "all improvements--bath, ice-box, etc."-- for twenty-five to thirty dollars a month.


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