"Come on, then."

"Oh, I \'m not going; it \'s too wet. Should n\'t have a crimp left if I went out such a day as this; and I want to look nice when Polly comes."

"You don\'t expect me to go and bring home a strange girl alone, do you?" And Tom looked as much alarmed as if his sister had proposed to him to escort the wild woman of Australia.

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