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"Look here!" George said quickly. "Don't do that! Mother mustn't do
that. It wouldn't look well."
"Wouldn't look well!" Fanny mocked him; and her suppressed vehemence
betrayed a surprising acerbity. "See here, Georgie Minafer, I suggest
that you just march straight on into your room and finish your
dressing! Sometimes you say things that show you have a pretty mean
little mind!"
George was so astounded by this outburst that his indignation was
delayed by his curiosity. "Why, what upsets you this way?" he
inquired.
"I know what you mean," she said, her voice still lowered, but not
decreasing in sharpness. "You're trying to insinuate that I'd get
your mother to invite Eugene Morgan here on my account because he's a
widower!"
"I am?" George gasped, nonplussed. "I'm trying to insinuate that
you're setting your cap at him and getting mother to help you? Is
that what you mean?"
Beyond a doubt that was what Miss Fanny meant. She gave him a white-
hot look. "You attend to your own affairs!" she whispered fiercely,
and swept away.


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