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the now giggling teller to say, "You ought to come out
and do some fishing. Been a long time."
"Sure thing. See you around."
The realtor then returned to the trailer near Astor
Heights, Carl Marco's new development south on the
road to Argyle that most people thought belonged to
Cecil Hedgerow. There he was only occasionally
required to set aside Field and Stream in order to
show a former Madderite, ready to come up in the
world, a blueprint of the American Dream.
At the Tea Shoppe, while Miss Lattice kept her
eyes fixed on the clock, Luke had persuaded Joy to
laugh at his imitation of their stuttering history teacher,
Ms. Rideout, who had announced today that she would
not be returning in the fall because they had driven her,
in a single year, to a view of human nature that was not
only incompatible with the pacifism in which she had
once believed, but incompatible with her personal
sanity.
"I agree with Ms. Rideout," Polly said.
"You would," sighed Joy.