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The Firing Line

CHAPTER XVII
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If they do, you've got to let 'em.

Anyway, things ought to come easier to you than to some, for you've got a corking education, and you don't drink sloe-gin, and you don't smoke." "And I _can_ cook," added the girl gravely, looking at her childish ringless hands.

The rings and a number of other details had been left behind addressed to the count.
"The trouble will be," said Malcourt, "that you will miss the brightness and frivolity of things.

That kitten won't compensate." "Do you think so?
I haven't had very much of anything--even kittens," she said, picking up the soft ball of fur and holding it under her chin.
"You missed the frivolous in life even before you had it.

You'll miss it again, too." "But I've had it now." "That doesn't count.


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