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ply _must_ see it. Blue! His very color!" Holding it up: "From you, Frank?" He nods. "Clarence!" _Watkins_: "If Fountain tries to kiss me, I'll--" _Fountain_: "I wouldn't kiss you for a dozen bath-gowns." Lifting it up from the floor where Mrs. Fountain has dropped it: "It _is_ rather nice." _Watkins_: "Don't overwhelm me." _Mrs. Fountain_, dancing about with a long, soft roll in her hand: "Oh, oh, oh! She saw me gloating on it at Shumaker's! I do wonder if it _is_." _Fountain_, reaching for it: "Why, open it--" _Mrs. Fountain_: "You dare! No, it shall be opened the very last thing in the morning, now, to punish you! How is poor Sue? I saw her literally dropping by the way at Shumaker's." _Watkins_, making for the door: "Well, she must have got up again. I left her registering a vow that if ever she lived to see another Christmas she would leave the country months before the shopping began. She called down maledictions on all the recipients of her gifts and wished them the worst harm that can befall the wicked." _Mrs. Fountain_: "Poor Sue! She simply lives to do people good, and I can understand exactly how she feels toward them. I'll be round bright and early to-morrow to thank her. Why do you go?" _Watkins_: "Well, I can't stay here all night, and I'd better let you and Clarence finish up." He escapes from her detaining embrace and runs out. III MRS. FOUNTAIN, FOUNTAIN _Mrs. Fountain_, intent upon her roll: "How funny he is! I wonder if he did hear anything but our scolding voices? Where were we?" _Fountain_: "I had just called you a serpent." _Mrs. Fountain_, with amusement: "No, really?" Feeling the parcel: "If it's that Spanish lace scarf I can tell her it was machine lace. I saw it at the first glance. But poor Sue has no taste. I suppose I must stand it. But I can't bear to think what she's given the girls and children. She means well. Did you really say serpent, Clarence? You never called me just _that_ before." _Fountain_: "No, but you called me a laughing hyena, and said I scoffed at everything sacred." _Mrs. Fountain_: "I can't remember using the word hyena, exactly, though I do think the way you talk about Christmas is dreadful. But I take back the laughing hyena." _Fountain_: "And I take back the serpent. I meant dove, anyway. But it's this Christmas-time when a man gets so tired he doesn't know what he's sayin
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