Humph!.
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. Well, Phin, you look awful glad to see me, I must say.
Gracious king, man, don't glower at me like that! I haven't done anything to you, if you'd only have sense enough to believe it." Babbitt did not answer.
He looked as if he were going to burst. Major Grover was regarding him with a whimsical twinkle in his eye. "Mr.Babbitt and I have just been discussing some points connected with the war," he observed.