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A Telephonic Conversation
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Oh, I think that is too high for them; we have never paid over fifty cents a bunch.
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MUST you go? Well, GOOD-by.
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Yes, I think so. GOOD-by.
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Four o’clock, then–I’ll be ready. GOOD-by.
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Thank you ever so much. GOOD-by.
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Oh, not at all!–just as fresh–WHICH? Oh, I’m glad to hear you say that. GOOD-by.
(Hangs up the telephone and says, “Oh, it DOES tire a person’s arm so!”)
A man delivers a single brutal “Good-by,” and that is the end of it. Not so with the gentle sex–I say it in their praise; they cannot abide abruptness.