Ptomaine Street by Carolyn Wells
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breast pocket with an exploring gesture.
"You think I'm too darn aesthetic! Well, you're not, and so we ought to mate. We're complementary to one another, like air and sunshine or light and shade." "Or pork and beans, or pie and cheese." "Yes, or like stout and porter--I'll be the porter, oh--what's the use of talking? Let my lips talk to you!" He kissed her cheek, imprinting thereon a Cupid's bow, by reason of his own addiction to the lipstick. Warble rubbed it off with the back of her hand, and said, "Oh, pleathe--pleathe." She wondered if she ought to have said thank you, but it was only a drifting thought and she turned the other cheek. Then she smiled her engaging smile and they were engaged. Later in the game, she said, with pretty diffidence, "I would like to thee Butterfly Thenter." And she blushed like the inside of those pink meat melons. "I knew it!" and Petticoat produced a pile of Sunday Picture Supplements. Her cheek nested in his permanent wave, Warble studied the pictures. They were the last word in artistic architecture. Truly, Butterfly Center, |
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