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 d herself up and answered him back. It was a babel of obscene Frisco curses: but I remember one clear sentence of hers from the din--

"You--, you! And d'ye think _my_ heart won't go to pieces when my stays are cut?"

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All the way home Violet kept sobbing and crying out that she was never driven so slowly. She was convinced that some harm had happened to her own Jack. She ran up to the night-nursery at once and woke your god-child out of a healthy sleep. And he arose in his full strength and yelled.