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The Turmoil

CHAPTER III
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They can do the whole thing for us.

Bobby Lamhorn told Sibyl he was going to bring his mother to call on her and on mamma, but it was weeks ago, and I notice he hasn't done it; and if Mrs.Vertrees decides not to know us, I'm darn sure Mrs Lamhorn'll never come.

That's ONE thing Sibyl didn't manage! She SAID Bobby offered to bring his mother--" "You say he is a friend of Roscoe's ?" Bibbs asked.
"Oh, he's a friend of the whole family," she returned, with a petulance which she made an effort to disguise.

"Roscoe and he got acquainted somewhere, and they take him to the theater about every other night.
Sibyl has him to lunch, too, and keeps--" She broke off with an angry little jerk of the head.

"We can see the New House from the second corner ahead.


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