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THE AMERICAN whatever of giving one, but, finding it the only issue from your proposal, she looked straight at the dose—pardon the expression—and bolted it, as you saw, without winking. She's really rather grand, you know."

"Well, I wonder!" said Newman, divided, this time, rather whimsically, quite appreciatively, between the sense of his own force and the sense of hers. "I don't care a straw for her fiddles and ices; I'm willing to take the will for the deed."

"No, no!—and Valentin showed an inconsequent touch of family pride. "The thing will be done now, and I dare say it will be quite folichon!"