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Excerpt from Beating the Air, Vol. 2 of 3
Daughters: he had made no return to them for their attentions and their smiles, but he regretted that they were bestowed no more. Indeed he not only regretted but resented it. He had never been what is usually called an amiable man, and now he was becoming decidedly cross in the grain.
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