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The Angel and the Author - and Others

CHAPTER XI
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All we had to do was to give up the bothering home and the bothering servants, and go into a "Mansion" or a "Court." It seems that you leave trouble outside--in charge of the hall-porter, one supposes.

He ties it up for you as the Commissionaire of the Army and Navy Stores ties up your dog.

If you want it again, you ask for it as you come out.

Small wonder that the "Court" and "Mansion" are growing in popularity every day.
That "Higher Life." They have nothing to do now all day long, these soaring wives of whom I am speaking.

They would scorn to sew on a shirt-button even.


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