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Ailsa Paige

CHAPTER IV
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I _wish_ she would marry again and be happy.

_She_ doesn't know what a happy love affair can be--poor baby." "Do you ?" asked her husband.
"Are you beginning to co't me again, Curt ?" "Have I ever ceased ?--you little Rebel!" "No," she said under her breath.
"By the way, Celia," he said smiling, "that young man--cousin of yours--Berkley, turned up promptly to-day.

I gave him a room in the office." "That was certainly ve'y frien'ly of you, Curt!" she responded warmly.

"You _will_ be patient with him, won't you ?" "I've had to be already.

I gave him a commission to collect some rents and he came back fifty dollars short, calmly explaining that one of our lodgers looked poor and he hated to ask for the rent." "O Curt--the boy is ve'y sweet and wa'm-hearted.


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