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IN THE MATTER OF ART
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They pledged themselves in the clasp of a handshake. He put on his cap and went out.

On his way down the path he heard her take up again the song which his arrival had interrupted:


"Now you 're married, you must obey;
You must he careful of all you say;
You must he kind, you must he good—
And help your husband split the wood."


"That 's acting," he said. "That 's acting."