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Alice Adams

CHAPTER XXV
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Mrs.Lohr gave him a note to me, and he was really a very pleasant-looking young man.

A VERY pleasant-looking young man," Mrs.Adams repeated with increased animation and a thoughtful glance at her daughter.

"He's a Mr.Will Dickson; he has a first-rate position with the gas works, Mrs.Lohr says, and he's fully able to afford a nice room.

So if you and I double up in here, then with that young married couple in my room, and this Mr.Dickson in your father's, we'll just about have things settled.

I thought maybe I could make one more place at table, too, so that with the other people from outside we'd be serving eleven altogether.


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