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The Happiest Time of Their Lives

CHAPTER XII
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I was more in love than she.

And if he had been asked the question I just asked you, he could have answered it.

He could have said: 'I have been a leader in a group in which I was, an athlete, an oarsman, and the most superb physical specimen of my race'-- brought up, too, he might have added, in the same traditions that I had had.

Well, that wasn't enough, Mr.Wayne, and that was a good deal.

If my father had only made me wait, only given me time to see that my choice was the choice of ignorance, that the man I thought a hero was, oh, the most pitifully commonplace clay--Mathilde shan't make my mistake." Wayne's eyes lit up.
"But that's it," he said.


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