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"I am happy to hear it! But what do you mean by 'anything'?"
"You may postpone—you may change about; she won't think the worse of you."
Morris stood there still, with his raised eyebrows; then he said simply and rather dryly—"Ah!" After this he remarked to Mrs. Penniman that if she walked so slowly she would attract notice, and he succeeded, after a fashion, in hurrying her back to the domicile of which her tenure had become so insecure.
