Out Of The Question

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William Dean Howells. Out Of The Question

CONTENTS:

I. IN THE PARLOR OF THE PONKWASSET HOTEL. I. Miss Maggie Wallace and Miss Lilly Roberts

II. Miss Leslie Bellingham, Maggie, and Lilly

III. Mrs. Bellingham, Mrs. Murray, and the Young Girls

IV. Mrs. Bellingham and Leslie; afterwards Mrs, Murray and Maggie

V. Leslie and Blake

VI. Mrs. Bellingham and Leslie; then Mrs. Murray

II. "IN FAYRE FOREST." I. Two Tramps

II. BLAKE AND THE TRAMPS

III. Leslie, Maggie, and Lilly; then Leslie alone

IV. The Young Girls and the Tramps

V. Blake and the Young Girls

III. A SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING. I. Mrs. Murray and Mrs. Bellingham

II. Leslie and Blake; Mrs. Murray and Mrs. Bellingham apart

III. Leslie and Blake ; finally, Mrs. Bellingham

IV. MRS. MURRAY'S TRIUMPH. I. Mrs. Bellingham and Leslie

II. Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Bellingham, and Leslie

V. BLAKE'S SAVING DOUBT. I. Leslie and Maggie

II. Leslie and Blake

VI. MR. CHARLES BELLINGHAM'S DIPLOMACY. I. Mrs. Bellingham, Mrs. Murray, and Mr. Charles Bellingham

II. Bellingham and Mrs. Bellingham; Leslie and Blake, without

III. Blake and Bellingham

IV. Leslie, Blake, and Bellingham

V. Mrs. Bellingham, and Leslie, Blake, and Bellingham; afterwards Mrs. Murray

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Out Of The Question

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Maggie: "With the young man? Why, Leslie, a young man is worth a thousand hand-bags in a place like this! You don't know what you 're talking about, Leslie. A young man " —

Leslie, rising and going toward the window: "My dear, he's out of the question. You may as well make up your mind to that, for you'll see at once that he'll never do. He's going to stop here, and as he's been very kind to us it makes his never doing all the harder to manage. He's a hero, if you like, but if you can imagine it he isn't quite — well, what you've been used to. Don't you see how a person could be everything that was unselfish and obliging, and yet not — not" —

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