The Worsted Man science who issues notes of affection at ninety days, discounts them, and fails to pay at maturity. A flirt is a pro moter who incorporates the heart into a stock company and issues shares to the amount of a hundred times its value and unloads upon the confiding public at par, defaults on his interest, and when the stock falls to eleven and an eighth condones his offence by making large gifts of philanthropy to the community Doll. My! but that sounds nice. Janette. Nice? Nice? Really, Iffa patience, I fear you ve put a lump of shoddy in where Mr. Woolley s con science should have been. DolL But aren t flirts nice? Don t people trust them ? It must be nice to be trusted. Impatience. Oh, dear, but this is a hard case. That s just the trouble, Mr. Woolley people do trust them 40
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