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The Port of Missing Men

CHAPTER II
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Marjorie has scribbled verses in secret, and Celia is the quietest auditor at the symphony.

And you may have observed that there is no button on Elizabeth's foil; you do well not to clash wits with her.

Do you say that these ascriptions are not square with your experience?
Then verily there must have been a sad mixing of infant candidates for the font in your parish.

Shirley, in such case, will mean nothing to you.

It is a waste of time to tell you that the name may become audible without being uttered; you can not be made to understand that the _r_ and _l_ slip into each other as ripples glide over pebbles in a brook.


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