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Number Seventeen

CHAPTER XIV
9/27

"Don't tell me, Frank, that your flights have taken you to the elevated region in which millionaires' daughters figure as possible brides!" "Now you are making me out a Mormon," and Theydon grinned fiercely.
"You know what I mean.

This Miss Forbes--by the way, what is her Christian name ?" "Let me see.

I think I have heard it.

Doris, is it, or Phyllis?
No, I remember now--Evelyn." "O, then, if you are so vague on that point I suppose I must reconcile myself to owning a bachelor brother again." He shook his head at her.
"Ah, you women!" he said.

"Yet I used to regard you as quite a sensible person, Mollie! Now, how in the name of goodness could I possibly entertain any notion of marrying the only daughter of a man in Forbes's position ?" "It all depends," was the illogical but crushing retort.


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