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Alice Adams

CHAPTER XVIII
18/23

Don't you think maybe so, Virgil ?" "Well--if I was ever going to, I don't know but I might as well of.
I got to admit the proposition begins to look pretty good: I know the stuff'll sell, and I can't see a thing in the world to stop it.

It does look good, and if--if----" He paused.
"If what ?" she said, suddenly anxious.
He laughed plaintively, as if confessing a superstition.

"It's funny--well, it's mighty funny about that smell.

I've got so used to it at the plant I never seem to notice it at all over there.

It's only when I get away.


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