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The other girls started when Patience delivered herself of this last remark.
"Jane Bush? " they said, looking at one another as though they thought Patience Chetwold -- Patience, the most down-right, matter-of-fact, sensible girl on earth -- had suddenly taken leave of her senses. "What do you mean, Patience? " they said, almost in chorus. "What can poor Jane have to do with it?"