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The Unspeakable Perk by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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all thought I ought to marry them, and everybody else seemed to
think so, too--"

"Go slow! Did you say Utica or Utah?"

"Everybody thought I ought to marry one or the other of 'em, I
mean. If I could have married them all, now, it might have been
easier, for I like them ever so much. But how could I make up my
mind? So I just seized papa around the neck and ran away with him
down here."

"Why here, of all places on earth?"

"Oh, he's interested in some mines and concessions and things.
It's very beautiful, but I almost wish I'd stayed at home and
married Bobby."

"Which is Bobby?"

"He's one of the home boys. We've grown up together, and I'm so
fond of him. Only it's more the brother-and-sister sort of thing,
if he'd let it be."

"Check off No. 1. What's No. 2?"

"Lots older. Mr. Thomas Murray Smith is an unspoiled millionaire.
If he weren't so serious and quite so dangerously near forty--
well, I don't know."

"Have you kept No. 3 for the last because he's the best?"
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