1 And I said 'That's the problem.'
2 I like that story, she reflected.
3 I took the newspaper," he explained, "so.
4 I was reading that in a book this morning.
5 I remember," the old man interrupted, "my mother.
6 "I don't feel that," said Mrs. Swithin, shaking her head.
7 "It appears," said old Bartholomew, laying down his spoon, "that I am a thief."
8 For myself," Mrs. Manresa continued, "speaking plainly, I can't put two words together.
9 "Only," here she turned with her head on one side to Isabella, "I'm sure she's written it."
10 "I've been nailing the placard on the Barn," she said, giving him a little pat on the shoulder.
11 "I have ordered the fish," she said aloud, turning, "though whether it'll be fresh or not I can't promise."
12 And I promised him you'd show him the--the-- here the champagne fizzed up and she insisted upon filling Bart's glass first.
13 You can't expect it brought to your door in a pail of water," said Mrs. Swithin, "as I remember when we were children, living in a house by the sea.
14 She knew, she said, pinching a bit of bread to make this emphatic, that Ralph, when he was at the war, couldn't have been killed without her seeing him--"wherever I was, whatever I was doing," she added, waving her hands so that the diamonds flashed in the sun.
15 But what a desirable, at least valuable, quality it was--for everybody felt, directly she spoke, "She's said it, she's done it, not I," and could take advantage of the breach of decorum, of the fresh air that blew in, to follow like leaping dolphins in the wake of an ice-breaking vessel.
16 This morning that sweetness was: "How cook had told 'im off about the asparagus; how when she rang I said: how it was a sweet costume with blouse to match;" and that was leading to something about a feller as they walked up and down the terrace rolling sweets, trundling the perambulator.'
17 But when Mrs. Manresa added, to make all shipshape: "He's an artist," and when William Dodge corrected her: "I'm a clerk in an office"--she thought he said Education or Somerset House--she had her finger on the knot which had tied itself so tightly, almost to the extent of squinting, certainly of twitching, in his face."
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