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"La vie est vaine: / Un peu d'amour, / Un peu de haine, / Et puis-bonjour!"
"REALLY, Mary, it's absurd to stay away from the picnic! And I simply can't go if you won't. That odious Mrs. Collins makes the most hateful chaperon, with her ‘Come here, my dear! ' just at the wrong moments. _Won't_ you come, Mary? " Gladys, in the most delicate of Dresden flowered silks, with a huge hat one mass of pale pink roses and black velvet, looked imploringly at her companion.