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Mr. Bingle by George Barr McCutcheon
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to take some interest in the matter of dress. Following that, she
revealed considerable enthusiasm over the prospect of going south in a
private car with a personal maid of her own, and could have a change
of frock twice a day for a week at a stretch, to say nothing of being
allowed to eat in the public dining-car if it pleased her to do so.
That thing of eating in the dining-car was a master-stroke on the part
of Bingle. It was the greatest inducement he could have offered to the
child in support of the claim that she ought to be the happiest
creature on earth, going away with Mr. and Mrs. Force like this.

Frederick and Wilberforce openly declared--in the presence of Mr. and
Mrs. Bingle--that you bet they'd go in a minute if they had the chance
to see the land where Melissa's pirates and smugglers did most of
their plundering--an attitude that created an unhappy half-hour for
Melissa later on in the day. Any one else but Melissa would have
received her walking-papers.

The frocks, the personal maid, the prospect of the dining-car and the
assurance that it wouldn't be necessary to call Mr. Force "daddy"
until she became a little more accustomed to seeing him around,
brought Kathleen to a proper way of thinking. She became quite eager
to go!

"Well," said Mr. Bingle to his wife, after the storm, "I fancy we'd
better make an appointment with Rouquin as soon as possible. I am
really quite enthusiastic, my dear, over that idea of yours to have a
cute little French baby. The sooner we get it the better, I say. It is
going to be pretty lonesome for awhile. Somehow I hope we find one
that cries a good deal. It would cheer us up considerably, I'm sure,
if we had something like that to annoy us, especially at night. We
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