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Phyllis of Philistia

CHAPTER XXIV
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Herbert came here with me afterward--for five minutes." "Ah! To get the taste of the party off his mouth, I suppose?
He didn't say anything to you then about being tired of his London season ?" "Not a word.

He seemed tired of the dinner party.

He yawned." "And I'm sure that you yawned in sympathy.

When a man so far forgets himself as to yawn in the presence of a woman, she never fails to respond with one of more ample circumference.

When a woman so far remembers herself as to yawn in the presence of a man, he tries to say something witty." "Yes, when the woman is not his wife.


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