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Life and Gabriella

CHAPTER VI
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It was the cleanness of the winds and the sea--as if his eyes had been washed by the sea.

I wonder who Alice is?
A common little shopgirl probably from Sixth Avenue, with padded hair and painted lips, and smelling of cheap powder.

That's just the kind of girl to fascinate a big, strong, simple creature like that Yes, of course, Alice is cheap and tawdry and vulgar, with no substance to her mind." She tried to think of Arthur, but her mental image of him had become as thin and unsubstantial as a shadow.
When she reached the apartment, Fanny rushed into her arms, and inquired breathlessly if she had taken the house?
"We went down again to look at it, mother, and we like it even better than ever.

It will be so lovely to live next door to Carlie.

We can tango every evening, and Carlie knows a lot of boys who come in to dance because the floor is so good." Her cheeks flushed while she talked, and, for the moment, she lost entirely her resemblance to Jane, who was never animated, though she made a perpetual murmurous sound.


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