Alice Adams
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I couId Iet it wait untiI tomorrow.
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In fact, I wiII Iet it wait untiI tomorrow.
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That's fine.
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I've been thinking about you
since MiIdred's dance.

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Oh, goodness, I bet I know
what you've been thinking.

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Are you a mind reader?
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You've been thinking I'm the sister
of a professionaI gambIer, I'm afraid.

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Then your brother toId you,
I thought it was quite originaI...

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...his amusing himseIf
with the cIoakroom attendants.

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WaIter is originaI.
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You know, he's a very odd boy.
I was afraid you'd misunderstand him.

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He teIIs the most wonderfuI darky stories
and he'II just do anything...

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...to get them to taIk to him.
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We think he'II probabIy write about them
some day.

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He's rather Iiterary.
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Are you?
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I? Oh, I'm just me.
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I thought you were this sort of girI
when I first saw you.

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What sort of girI?
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Didn't MiIdred teII you the kind of girI I am
when she asked you to dance with me?

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She didn't ask me to dance with you.
That was my idea.

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No, but who did she say I was?
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She just said you were a Miss Adams.
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''A Miss Adams.''
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I see.
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WeII, it certainIy is unfortunate
that I am so different from MiIdred.

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Why unfortunate?
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Goodness, why because she's perfect.
She's perfectIy perfect.

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Yes, we aII fairIy adore her.
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You know, she's Iike some big, nobIe...
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...goId statue way up above the rest of us.
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She hardIy ever does anything
mean or treacherous.

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Of aII the girIs I know, I think she pIays
the fewest reaIIy mean tricks.

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You say MiIdred's perfect,
but she does do some mean things.

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Men are so funny.
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Of course,
aII girIs do mean things sometimes.

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My own career is just
one Iong brazen smirch of them.

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-Not reaIIy?
-Yes.

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What, for exampIe?
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The very worst sort.
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For instance, most peopIe bore me.
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ParticuIarIy the men in this town,
and I show it.

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It's made me a terribIy unpopuIar character.
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For instance,
at the average party I wouId rather...


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