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He had just proposed. Secretly, she was very much elated, and intended to say "Yes" eventually. But she thought she would_ have a- little amusement py keeping him in 6uspense for a few minutes; So she said, in a sad voice, "I'm afraid I can bp nothing but a oister tp you." "Well, that's all right," he said gaily. "I thought that eince I have been going with you for n, year now it was only fair that I should give- you an opportunity to marry me if you cared to. But sinco you don't, I might as well confess that I'd rather be a. brother than a husband niyself." And Cupid closed off another account to profit and loss.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 11
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