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Why, damn it," he confided to his bookkeeper afterward, "I been sendin' things up to that there house for seventeen years, and the whole bill ain't amounted to shucks.
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"He'll be a boy," Robert Ferguson said, "until he makes an ass of himself by falling in love.
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I--" he paused, and laughed: "I was twenty, just out of college, when I made an ass of myself over a girl who was as vain as a peacock.
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Don't be an ass."
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Furthermore, I'd rather have him make love than make pictures;-- that is his last fancy," she said, frowning.
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She had had a letter from Blair, and all her joyousness had fled: "_The Dean is an ass, of course; but mother'll get excited about it, I'm afraid.
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Helena Richie was immensely proud of this sudden, serious manhood; but Elizabeth's uncle took it as a matter of course:--had he not, himself, ceased to be an ass at twenty?
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"I'm an ugly cuss," he said to himself, sighing; "and I look sixty."
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"The idea of his daring to make love to her!
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'Oh, yes,' he said, 'you are honest, Mrs. Maitland, but you ain't damn-fool honest.'"
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_I'm_ damn-fool honest, I suppose."
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"Besides," he said, with strained self-control, "besides, I'm like you, I'm not 'damn-fool honest'!"
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As it was, he read it in troubled preoccupation; then reddened sharply: he was a worthless cuss; he couldn't stand on his own legs and get married like a man; his girl had to urge her uncle to let her support her lover!
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"Damn," said David softly.
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Damn him."
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"Damn him?" said David, and burst into a scream of laughter.
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But the third time he was frantic: "Damn it, if you knock on my door again I'll kick you down-stairs!
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Then his eyes narrowed: "And she doesn't care a damn for me."
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So it was that as he sat there in the snow, watching the puff of white deepen on the stalk of goldenrod, his god prevailed yet a little more, for, so far as Elizabeth was concerned, he did not try to fool himself: "she doesn't care a damn."
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"Why _am_ I such an ass?" he asked himself; then said, with studied lightness, that he was afraid he would have to absent himself from business for still a little longer, as he was going abroad.
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"If Blair had been a hard-working man, knocking up against other hard- working men, trying to get food for his belly and clothes for his nakedness, he'd have been ashamed to play such a trick--he'd have been a man.
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Well, certainly that sneak, Richie, would feel he was avenged if he could know how cruel she was; "damn him," Blair said, softly.
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"What an ass I am!" he said to himself; "she has gone to her uncle's, of course."
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"Damn him," David said, and the tears stood in his eyes.