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Excerpt from The Woman of It
Both glanced wistfully toward the center of the lobby, where the thicket of rockers swayed sociably in pairs, trios, and quartettes. Nearly every chair held a woman. The men in most part lounged about the cigar-stand hard by the clerks' desk, smoking or plying toothpicks. N one of them wore evening clothes, but a white waist coat or two paid modest tribute to the amenities. One of the group so distinguished, a man with nervous hands, was telling a story. As he ended, another man, who had been restively awaiting his turn, capped the anecdote. This rival story teller was of a ?orid type of good looks, drop ping by night a full decade of his forty-five years, and bore the hallmark of commercial suc cess.
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