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The Happiest Time of Their Lives

CHAPTER X
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He and she had the warm friendship for each other of two handsome, healthy young people of opposite sexes who might have everything to give each other except time.

She was perhaps ten years older than he, extremely handsome, with dimples and dark red hair and blue eyes.

She had a large practice among the poor, and might have made a conspicuous success of her profession if it had not been for her intense and too widely diffused interest.

She wanted to strike a blow at every abuse that came to her attention, and as, in the course of her work, a great many turned up, she was always striking blows and never following them up.

She went through life in a series of springs, each one in a different direction; but the motion of her attack was as splendid as that of a tiger.


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