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The Happiest Time of Their Lives

CHAPTER IX
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When you have a little more experience you will discriminate between the men you like to have love you and the men there is the smallest chance of your loving.

I assure you, if little Wayne were not in love with you, you would think him a perfectly commonplace boy.

If one of your friends were engaged to him, you would be the first to say that you wondered what it was she saw in him.

That isn't the way one wants people to feel about one's husband, is it?
And as to going to China with him, you know that's impossible, don't you ?" "It would be impossible to let him go without me." "Really, Mathilde!" said Mrs.Farron, gently, as if she, so willing to play fair, were being put off with fantasies.

"I don't understand you," she added.
"No, Mama; you don't." The motor stopped at the door, and they went in silence to Mrs.Farron's room, where for a bitter hour they talked, neither yielding an inch.


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