Yeere

'I don't know,' said Yeere, rather taken aback by the unexpected eloquence.

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One of his own rank and file put the matter brutally when he asked Yeere, in reference to nothing, 'And who has been making you a Member of Council, lately?

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Yeere had showed Mrs. Hauksbee his MS. notes of six years 'standing on these same Gullals.

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Indeed, Yeere was rapidly beginning to forget what he had been.

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I didn't mean it, you know, 'said Yeere apologetically.

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Otis Yeere discovered that he could enter a room without breaking into a gentle perspiration could cross one, even to talk to Mrs. Hauksbee, as though rooms were meant to be crossed.

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Mrs. Hauksbee preached to Otis Yeere the Great Gospel of Conceit, illustrating it with living pictures encountered during their Sunday afternoon stroll.

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Otis Yeere was one of those wandering 'dumb' characters, foredoomed through life to be nobody's property.

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Otis Yeere 'stopped dead,' as Mrs. Hauksbee put it in discussing the relapse with Mrs. Mallowe.

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It was intensified later in the day when a luncher at the Club said spitefully, 'Well, for a debilitated Ditcher, Yeere, you are going it.

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