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The Firing Line

CHAPTER III
17/18

Is it not quaint--the tangle of shrubbery all over jasmine ?--and those are royal poincianas, if you please--and there's a great garden beyond and most delectable orange groves where you and I and the family and Alonzo will wander and eat pine-oranges and king-oranges and mandarins and--oh, well! Are you going to call on Mr.Cardross to-morrow ?" "Yes," he said, "I'll have to see Mr.Cardross at once.

And after that, what am I to do to meet you ?" "I will consider the matter," she said; and bending slightly toward him: "Am I to be disappointed in you?
I don't know, and you can't tell me." Then, impulsively: "Be generous to me.

You are right; I am not very old, yet.

Be nice to me in your thoughts.

I have never before done such a thing as this: I never could again.


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