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Chapter 8 He Tiffins
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Mr. Wrenn, chewing and chewing and chewing the cud of thought in his room next evening, after an hour had proved two things; thus:
(a) The only thing he wanted to do was to go back to America at once, because England was a country where every one — native or American — was so unfriendly and so vastly wise that he could never understand them.
(b) The one thing in the world that he wanted to do was to be right here, for the most miraculous1 event of which he had ever heard was meeting Miss Nash. First one, then the other, these thoughts swashed back and forth2 like the swinging tides. He got away from them only long enough to rejoice that somehow — he didn’t know how — he was going to be her most intimate friend, because they were both Americans in a strange land and because they both could make-believe.
Then he was proving that Istra would, and would not, be the perfect comrade among women when some one knocked at his door.
Electrified3, his cramped4 body shot up from its crouch5, and he darted6 to the door.
Istra Nash stood there, tapping her foot on the sill with apologetic haste in her manner. Abruptly7 she said:
“So sorry to bother you. I just wondered if you could let me have a match? I’m all out.”
“Oh yes! Here’s a whole box. Please take ’em. I got plenty more.” [Which was absolutely untrue.]
“Thank you. S’ good o’ you,” she said, hurriedly. “G’ night.”
She turned away, but he followed her into the hall, bashfully urging: “Have you been to another show? Gee8! I hope you draw a better one next time ‘n the one about the guy with the nephew.”
“Thank you.”
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slipper
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salon
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loathe
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labyrinth
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beckoned
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transcript
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bluff
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jug
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knight
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portfolio
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