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"THE ROSE OF DIXIE"

THE THIRD INGREDIENT

THE HIDING OF BLACK BILL

SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLS

THIMBLE, THIMBLE

SUPPLY AND DEMAND

BURIED TREASURE

TO HIM WHO WAITS

HE ALSO SERVES

THE MOMENT OF VICTORY

THE HEAD-HUNTER

NO STORY

THE HIGHER PRAGMATISM

BEST-SELLER

RUS IN URBE

A POOR RULE

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This treatise shall have to do with but two of the Vallambrosians – though meaning no disrespect to the others.

At six o'clock one afternoon Hetty Pepper came back to her third-floor rear $3.50 room in the Vallambrosa with her nose and chin more sharply pointed than usual. To be discharged from the department store where you have been working four years, and with only fifteen cents in your purse, does have a tendency to make your features appear more finely chiselled.

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"I never give my address to chauffeurs," said Cecilia, haughtily.

"I wish we had one," said Hetty, disconsolately.

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