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Jo’s Boys

CHAPTER 5
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'Tisn't ladylike.

Ought to be satisfied with an ice and a bit of cake, and eat it prettily.

Don't like to see a girl feed.

We hard-working men need it, and, by Jove, I mean to get some more of that meringue if it's not all gone.

Here, waiter! bring along that dish over there, and be lively,' commanded Stuffy, poking a young man in a rather shabby dress-suit, who was passing with a tray of glasses.
His order was obeyed promptly; but George's appetite was taken away the next moment by Dolly's exclaiming, as he looked up from his damaged coat, with a scandalized face: 'You've put your foot in it now, old boy! that's Morton, Mr Bhaer's crack man.


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