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The Avalanche

CHAPTER IV
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No reflections on your charming society, but of course she does not get much of it, and she will miss her young friends.

After all, she is a child and needs playmates." Ruyler darted at her a sharp look, but she was smiling amiably.

Doremus and the men he lived with, in town had a bungalow at Burlingame and they bought their commutation tickets at precisely the fashionable moment.
"She will stay in town," he said shortly.

"She needs a rest, and San Francisco is the healthiest spot on earth." "But trying to the nerves when what we inaccurately call the trade winds begin.

Why not let her stay with me?
Of course she would be lonely in her own house, and is too young to stay there alone anyhow, but I'd like to put her up, and you certainly could run down week-ends--possibly oftener.
American men are always obsessed with the idea that they are twice as busy as they really are." "You are too good.


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