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McTeague

CHAPTER 6
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McTeague met the Sieppes at the ferry, dressed in a black Prince Albert coat and his best slate-blue trousers, and wearing the made-up lawn necktie that Marcus had selected for him.
Trina was very pretty in the black dress that McTeague knew so well.
She wore a pair of new gloves.

Mrs.Sieppe had on lisle-thread mits, and carried two bananas and an orange in a net reticule.

"For Owgooste," she confided to him.

Owgooste was in a Fauntleroy "costume" very much too small for him.

Already he had been crying.
"Woult you pelief, Doktor, dot bube has torn his stockun alreatty?
Walk in der front, you; stop cryun.


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