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Ramsey Milholland

CHAPTER XIV
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However, he faced no such fact, nor any fact, but lingered.
"Well--" he said again.
"You'd better go." "I guess I can get my dinner pretty near any time.

I don't--" He had a thought.

"Did you--" "Did I what ?" "Did you have your dinner before I met you ?" "No." "Well, aren't you--" She shook her head.

"I don't want any." "Why not ?" "I don't think people have very much appetite to-day and yesterday," she said, with the hint of a sad laugh, "all over America." "No; I guess that's so." "It's too terrible!" she said.

"I can't sit and eat when I think of the _Lusitania_--of all those poor, poor people strangling in the water--" "No; I guess nobody can eat much, if they think about that." "And of what it's going to bring, if we let it," she went on.


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