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[Pol Rodgers]

I want you to stop at the drugstore and git me abottle of Redferns Blood Bitters.
But tonightValancy caught her breath with the old pain and sting of it. The only thing she really enjoyedwas a funeral.
Clear up that mess and leave the bushalone.
Howeverthat might be, Olives third venture met with everybodys approval. It would hurt UncleHerberts feelings if she stayed away, and she rather liked UncleHerbert. When she was young they allowed her towear white, but that had been tacitly dropped for some years.
It did not wreck Valancys, or even damage it. And the time when, at eight, she had stolensome raspberry jam from Aunt Wellingtons pantry.
Nothing really pleasant had every happened toValancy. It was a beautiful bush and quite ornamental.
Oh, if there were only any hope of being able to forget it!
Frederick and Cousin Stickles had noticed a few thingsthat made them uneasy BEFORE the dinner.
And she would be watched and checked like a baby and never let doanything or go anywhere alone. Her lips twitched as she lookedat the straggling bush.
Her clan had always consideredher very dull.
She had made such patheticefforts to be pretty that night. Valancy had been guiltyof impertinence to HER.
Valancyturned away resolutely and began building another dust-pile.
Im sick of fragrance of dead things, said Valancy. These family celebrations were all hopelessly dull.
She always considered Herberts gracesentirely too short and flippant.
Valency had reached the door, but she turned.
What, said Uncle Benjamin, is the difference between a donkeyand a postage-stamp? 
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