Dolly Dialogues by Anthony Hope
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"Why are you looking at me?" she asked. "Because," said I, "there is nothing better to look at." "Do you like doing it?" asked Dolly. "It is a privilege," said I politely. "Well, then!" said Dolly. "But," I ventured to observe, "it's rather an expensive one." "Then you mustn't have it very often." "And it is shared by so many people." "Then," said Dolly, smiling indulgently, "you must have it--a little oftener. Home, Roberts, please." I am not yet allowed at Mrs. Hilary Musgrave's. A VERY DULL AFFAIR "To hear you talk," remarked Mrs. Hilary Musgrave--and, if any one is surprised to find me at her house, I can only say that Hilary, when he asked me to take a pot-luck, was quite ignorant of any ground of difference between his wife and myself, and that |
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