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You know I detected her
waving a handkerchief once. Then you said it was one you left at the
house; and so I never thought of it again."
"I never let the past trouble me, my dear, never. A man of forethought,
of progressive ideas, looks always ahead, and by his acts proves that he
is up square with the spirit of the age. I have a new conception. Yes,
my dear, a new conception. Nothing figurative about it, my dear. I have
a new and grand conception, which I have been evolving in my mind for
some time, and now I am getting it into a scheme which I am sure will be
profitable."
"My dear husband," said Mrs. Chapman, in a strain of intense excitement,
"do let us know what it is."
"Of great importance to us both," he replied, with great seriousness, as
he brushed his long black hair back over his parchment-like forehead.
"I'll be bound it refers to what took place to-day between our Mattie
and that young sailor. I saw it all; and you saw it all, too, my dear,
and you never said a word. We never can agree on that matter, my dear,
never.


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