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He absolutely refused to allow me to be a manicurist.
And he asked me to take a day off with him and let him show me New York.
And he offered, as attractions, moving-picture shows and a drive on a Fifth Avenue bus, and feeding peanuts to the animals in the park.
And if I insisted upon a chaperon I might bring one of the nurses. We're to meet at the soda-water fountain in the Grand Central Station. He said, 'The day cannot begin too soon.'" "Oh, Anita!" shrieked the chorus. Lord Deptford, who as the newspapers had repeatedly informed the American public, had come to the Flaggs' country-place to try to marry Anita Flagg, was amused. "What an awfully jolly rag!" he cried.
"And what are you going to do about it ?" "Nothing," said Anita Flagg.
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