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And HE doesn't like them, anyway--especially canned. Pause. Oh, I think that is too high for them; we have never paid over fifty cents a bunch. Pause. MUST you go? Well, GOOD-by. Pause. Yes, I think so.
GOOD-by. Pause. Four o'clock, then--I'll be ready.
GOOD-by. Pause. Thank you ever so much.
GOOD-by. Pause. Oh, not at all!--just as fresh--WHICH? Oh, I'm glad to hear you say that.
GOOD-by. (Hangs up the telephone and says, "Oh, it DOES tire a person's arm so!") A man delivers a single brutal "Good-by," and that is the end of it. Not so with the gentle sex--I say it in their praise; they cannot abide abruptness. EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE These two were distantly related to each other--seventh cousins, or something of that sort.
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