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dance with her any more — without having three fellows rush up to cut in." That sort of teasing or raillery is the best condiment that can be added to conversation. It may be impersonally about a class, as well as a person. You can say, "These Quakers are a fearfully contrary people. They refuse to fight, they refuse to swear, they practically never talk — and when they do it is to say something good about someone." You say, "Missionaries are an ungrateful and irresponsible lot. They come around giving you a hard-luck story, you are moved, you give them half your wardrobe — and the next thing you find they have wasted your good clothes on a lot of heathen Chinese." |
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