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Millie Whitcomb, of the [fancy:funny] goods and notions, beckoned me with her [finger:hand] . I had been standing at Kate O'Malley's counter, pretending to [admire:admit] her new basket-weave suitings; but in reality reveling in her droll account of how, in the train coming up from [Chicago:Paris] , Mrs. Judge Porterfield had worn the porter's coat over her chilly shoulders in mistake for her husband's. Kate O'Malley can tell a funny story in a way to make the after-dinner pleasantries of a Washington diplomat sound like the clumsy jests [told:said] around the village grocery store.

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Millie Whitcomb, of the fancy goods and notions, beckoned me with her finger . I had been standing at Kate O'Malley's counter, pretending to admire her new basket-weave suitings; but in reality reveling in her droll account of how, in the train coming up from Chicago , Mrs. Judge Porterfield had worn the porter's coat over her chilly shoulders in mistake for her husband's. Kate O'Malley can tell a funny story in a way to make the after-dinner pleasantries of a Washington diplomat sound like the clumsy jests told around the village grocery store.
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