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"What I want to know," said the chairman of the committee, wearily, "is just this. Are we going to give the _Lady of Lyons_, or are we not? I have a music lesson at four and a tea at five, and while your sprightly and interesting conversation is ever pleasing to me -- "
"Oh, Neal, don't! Think of something for us! Don't you want us to give it?"