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The March Family Trilogy

PART FOURTH
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But sit down, now, and don't keep walking that way, and let me see if I understand it perfectly.

Of course, I had to have my say out." She made him go all over his talk with Dryfoos again, and report his own language precisely.

From time to time, as she got his points, she said, "That was splendid," "Good enough for him!" and "Oh, I'm so glad you said that to him!" At the end she said: "Well, now, let's look at it from his point of view.

Let's be perfectly just to him before we take another step forward." "Or backward," March suggested, ruefully.

"The case is simply this: he owns the magazine." "Of course." "And he has a right to expect that I will consider his pecuniary interests--" "Oh, those detestable pecuniary interests! Don't you wish there wasn't any money in the world ?" "Yes; or else that there was a great deal more of it.


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