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The Octopus

CHAPTER IV
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The tears overflowed his eyes and ran down upon his cheeks.

She drew away from him and held him a second at arm's length, looking at him, and he saw that she, too, had been crying.
"I think," he said, "we are a couple of softies." "No, no," she insisted.

"I want to cry and want you to cry, too.

Oh, dear, I haven't a handkerchief." "Here, take mine." They wiped each other's eyes like two children and for a long time sat in the deserted little Japanese pleasure house, their arms about each other, talking, talking, talking.
On the following Saturday they were married in an uptown Presbyterian church, and spent the week of their honeymoon at a small, family hotel on Sutter Street.

As a matter of course, they saw the sights of the city together.


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