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At least I think we ought to.
But I'll think it over again."
That was foolish of him, she opined. For the Muscovites would probably
have paid their accounts as regularly as other members; and as to their
capacity for raising the Club revenues by the destruction of
alcohol--why, many people had said unkind things about them, and yet
nobody had gone so far as to accuse them of being unable to stow it
away in proper Christian style. No wonder. Because there was nothing
whatever in their Bible, the GOLDEN BOOK of the divinely inspired
Bazhakuloff, to prohibit or even limit the consumption of strong
waters. In the matter of dietary he had only bidden them refrain fro
the flesh of warm-blooded beasts.
Mr. Parker was always thinking things over and coming to the wrong
conclusion. It was foolish of him.
She knew him too well to say anything more for the moment. She would
have to bide her time because Freddy, of whom she had made an
exhaustive study, was a wobbler, and worse than a wobbler. He was
stubborn at the wrong season and difficult to manage.


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