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The Visioning

CHAPTER VIII
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Pourquoi is the inquirer and N'est-ce-pas the universalist.

I trust Watts will give this his endorsement." "I'll ask him," gravely replied Worth, and sought to accustom the puppies to their new names with chanting--Poor Qua--Nessa Pa.

The chant grew so melancholy that the puppies subsided; oppressed, overpowered, perhaps, with the sense of being anything as large and terrible as inquirer and universalist.
But Worth was too true a son of the army to leave a brooding damsel long alone in the corner.

"You seen the new cow ?" was his friendly approach.
"Why, I don't believe I have," she confessed.
"I s'pose you've seen the chickens ?" he asked, a trifle condescendingly.
Ann shamefacedly confessed that she had not as yet seen the chickens.
He took a step backward for the weighty, crushing: "Well, you've seen the _horses_, haven't you ?" "Aunt Kate--Aunt Kate!" he called peremptorily, as Ann humbly shook her head, "Miss Ann's not seen the cow--or the, chickens--nor the horses!" "Isn't it scandalous ?" agreed Kate.

"It shows what sort of hostess I am, doesn't it?
But you see, Worth, I thought as long as you were coming so soon you could do the honors of the stables.


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