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Alice Adams

CHAPTER XI
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How can you call a GLUE factory, that doesn't exist except in your mind, a 'horn of plenty'?
Do let's be a little rational!" "It COULD be a horn of plenty," the tearful Mrs.Adams insisted.

"It could! You don't understand a thing about it." "Well, I'm willing," Alice said, with tired skepticism.

"Make me understand, then.

Where'd you ever get the idea ?" Mrs.Adams withdrew her hands from the water, dried them on a towel, and then wiped her eyes with a handkerchief.

"Your father could make a fortune if he wanted to," she said, quietly.


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