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Alice Adams

CHAPTER XIII
13/20

You----" "Look here, now," he interrupted, angrily.

"You look here! If I didn't put a little by whenever I could, in a bond or something, where would you be if anything happened to me?
The insurance doctors never passed me; YOU know that.

Haven't we got to have SOMETHING to fall back on ?" "Yes, we have!" she cried.

"We ought to have something to go on with right now, too, when we need it.

Do you suppose these snippets would treat Alice the way they do if she could afford to ENTERTAIN?
They leave her out of their dinners and dances simply because they know she can't give any dinners and dances to leave them out of! They know she can't get EVEN, and that's the whole story! That's why Henrietta Lamb's done this thing to her now." Adams had gone back to his rubbing of his knees.


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