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"Your coffee must be stone cold by this time, dear," Alice Bagsbury observed in a tone of mild remonstrance; "shan't I pour you another cup?"
"What's that? " John asked absently, from behind his morning paper. "Oh, yes, if you please. " He took up the cup, but instead of handing it to her, he drank off the dismal beverage, and replacing the cup in its saucer turned back to his paper, apparently under the impression that he had followed her suggestion.