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Excerpt from White Ashes
Congratulate you, said Cole, with a laugh. Oh, I haven't finished, Wilkinson went on.
The next step in my missionary movement will be a popular demand for chicken salad. That's a big forward step you eat it with a fork and from there it will be an easy gradation up the corte da jour until finally I triumph in the introduction of real food, so that when you ask for tea in this house you will get a full portion of porterhouse steak and French fried potatoes. But don't think me hypercritical, Isabel, he added. Even now I can usually manage to part from you without reeling, faint with hunger, down your front steps and collapsing at their feet I should say foot.
I'm extremely relieved to hear you say so, replied the girl.
The third young man, who alone of the three wore a frock coat, and who retained on his hand his left glove while his right was laid smoothly across his knee, now entered the conversation.
You talk as though you were really hungry, Charlie, he said.
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