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376 "Why did you provoke me so, then?" he asks, quickly; "have you forgotten what it was that you said?"

"Hush!" I say, putting my hand over his mouth. "At any rate, I will kiss you now."

"If you please," says Simpkins the ubiquitous; "hem! dinner is waiting!"