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From the Housetops

CHAPTER VII
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I suppose you know that ?" "I know that, Simmy." "Hang it all, I never dreamed that she'd look at any one else but you, so I never even peeped a word to her about my own feelings.

And here she goes, throwing you over like a shot, and spilling everything.

Confound it, man, if I'd thought she could possibly want to marry anybody else but you, I'd have had my try.

The good Lord knows I'm not much, but by thunder, I'm not decrepit.

I--I suppose it was the money, eh ?" "That's for you to say, Simmy; certainly not for me." "If it's money she's after and not an Adonis, I don't see why the deuce she didn't advertise.


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