A Social Meteor — page 175: what you’re looking at

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A SOCIAL METL£OR. 165 “But, Lee, promise me, promise me,” she pleaded, “that you won’t leave me; I shouldn’t know what to do without you, really. You believe I love you, don’t you? See, I’m quite myself again, only it upset me so just at first. But I feel better now, and I hope you won’t go away from me.’ He was really alarmed by her nervous hysteri- cal manner, and so he quieted her as well as he could until the carriage stopped in front of the hotel. EGomichboo SS (E@)