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The End Of The World

CHAPTER XII
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And, indeed, she did not dream how grievous was the wrong she did.

For she could appreciate no other feeling in the matter than vanity, and she could not see any particular harm in "taking Jule Anderson down a peg." And so she assured the anxious and already suspicious August that if she was in his place she should want that singing-master out of the way.
"Some girls can't stand people that wear jewelry and mustaches and straps and such things.

And Mr.Humphreys is very careful of her, won't let her sit too late on the porch, and is very comforting in his way of talking to her.

And she seems to like it.

I tell you what it is, Gus "-- and she looked at him so bewitchingly that the pure and sensitive August blushed, he could hardly tell why--"I tell you Jule's a nice girl, and got a nice property back of her, and I hope she won't act like her mother.


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