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McTeague

CHAPTER 11
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Come on, let's go, huh, will you ?" Trina still had her mania for family picnics, which had been one of the Sieppes most cherished customs; but now there were other considerations.
"I don't know as we can afford it this month, Mac," she said, pouring the chocolate.

"I got to pay the gas bill next week, and there's the papering of your office to be paid for some time." "I know, I know," answered her husband.

"But I got a new patient this week, had two molars and an upper incisor filled at the very first sitting, and he's going to bring his children round.

He's a barber on the next block." "Well you pay half, then," said Trina.

"It'll cost three or four dollars at the very least; and mind, the Heises pay their own fare both ways, Mac, and everybody gets their OWN lunch.


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