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A GENTLEMAN OF JAPAN AND A LADY

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A DARK SHINY THING

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HE was in an extremely oratorical attitude, of the American senatorial fashion (as she conceived it after some acquaintance with the comic weeklies).

"'When—the—Americazan'—igle?"

She threw a charming interrogation at Bob without changing a muscle.

"Eagle," corrected Bob, sadly, from the newspaper cutting in his hand.

"Thangs. 'When the Americazan eegle shall have—shall have'—?"

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