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The Husbands of Edith

CHAPTER VII
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His rectitude is without a flaw.

For heaven's sake, don't implicate him.
He's--" "Madam, I am not a policeman," said Odell-Carney with scathing dignity.
"I want your husband to aid me in hushing this c'nfended thing." "He shan't do it! I won't permit him to be mixed up in it," almost screamed Mrs.Rodney.

"I've just heard that he isn't a husband at all.
It's atrocious!" "Bless me, Mrs.Rodney," roared Odell-Carney, "then you oughtn't to be living with him if he isn't your husband.

You're as bad as-- Hi, look out, there! Don't do that!" Mrs.Rodney had collapsed into her daughter's arms, gasping for breath.
"She's all upset, Mr.Odell-Carney," said Katherine, shaking her mother soundly.

"It's just nerves.


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