[Jerry Junior by Jean Webster]@TWC D-Link bookJerry Junior CHAPTER XVIII 27/30
He isn't really a donkey-man nor a Magyar nor an orphan nor an organ-grinder nor--any of the things he has said he was.
He is just a plain American man and an _awful liar_!" The young man held out his hand and Mr.Wilder shook it. "Jerry," he said, "I don't need to tell you how pleased--" "'Jerry!'" echoed Constance.
"Father, you knew ?" "Long before you did, my dear." There was a suggestion of triumph in Mr. Wilder's tone. "Jerry, you told." There was reproach, scorn, indignation in hers. Jerry spread out his hands in a gesture of repudiation. "What could I do? He asked my name the day we climbed Monte Maggiore; naturally, I couldn't tell him a lie." "Then we haven't fooled anybody.
How unromantic!" "Oh, yes," said Jerry, "we've fooled lots of people.
Gustavo doesn't understand, and Giuseppe, you noticed, looked rather dazed.
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