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Rilla of Ingleside

CHAPTER XI
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Now I shall just look over the papers a minute before going to write a letter to little Jem.

Two things I never did, Mrs.Dr.dear, were write letters and read politics.

Yet here I am doing both regular and I find there is something in politics after all.

Whatever Woodrow Wilson means I cannot fathom but I am hoping I will puzzle it out yet." Susan, in her pursuit of Wilson and politics, presently came upon something that disturbed her and exclaimed in a tone of bitter disappointment, "That devilish Kaiser has only a boil after all." "Don't swear, Susan," said Dr.Blythe, pulling a long face.
"'Devilish' is not swearing, doctor, dear.

I have always understood that swearing was taking the name of the Almighty in vain ?" "Well, it isn't--ahem--refined," said the doctor, winking at Miss Oliver.
"No, doctor, dear, the devil and the Kaiser--if so be that they are really two different people--are not refined.


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