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The Common Law

CHAPTER II
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Now there's nothing doing in the millinery line and I'm ready for suggestions." "Dinner with me," said Ogilvy, fondly.

But she turned up her dainty nose: "Have _you_ anything more interesting to offer, Mr.Annan ?" "Only my heart, hand, and Ogilvy's fortune," said Annan, regretfully.
"But I believe Archie Allaire was looking for a model of your type--" "I don't want to pose for Mr.Allaire," said the girl, pouting and twirling the handle of her parasol.
But neither Annan nor Ogilvy could use her then; and Neville had just finished a solid week of her.
"What I'll do," she said with decision, "will be to telephone John Burleson.

I never knew him to fail a girl in search of an engagement." "Isn't he a dear," said Valerie, smiling.

"I adore him." She sat at the piano, running her fingers lightly over the keyboard, listening to what was being said, watching with happy interest everything that was going on around her, and casting an occasional glance over her shoulder and upward to where Neville stood at work.
"John Burleson," observed Rita, looking fixedly at Ogilvy, "is easily the nicest man I know." "Help!" said Ogilvy, feebly.
Valerie glanced across the top of the piano, laughing, while her hands passed idly here and there over the keys: "Sam _can_ be very nice, Rita; but you've got to make him," she said.
"Did you ever know a really interesting man who didn't require watching ?" inquired Annan, mildly.
Rita surveyed him with disdain: "Plenty." "Don't believe it.

No girl has any very enthusiastic use for a man in whom she has perfect confidence." "Here's another profound observation," added Ogilvy; "when a woman loses confidence in a man she finds a brand-new interest in him.


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