Men are usually generous when they are getting married." "He was takin' on a rather expensive bit of stuff, unless I am much mistaken, an' p'raps he was just rememberin' it." In this ingenuous fashion was a poor woman neatly headed off the scent of a fifty-dollar bill.

She rang the knell of a new hat by her next question.
"What was the young lady really like--how was she dressed ?" she cried.
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Hardly a word was said within the taxi until the corner was turned out of 56th Street into Seventh Avenue.

Curtis, who was sitting with his back to the driver, rose, apologized for the disturbance, and looked through the tiny rear window.
"That's all right," he said.