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Now a word as to the fellow you are so anxious to meet. I have
talked to you so much about him, that you will probably laugh at
my attempting to tell you anything new. I'm not going to try, and
you are to consider all I say as merely a sort of underlining to
what you already know. Please remember that he will never take a
prize for his beauty--nor even for his grace. He has a pleasing
way with girls, not only of not talking himself, but of making it
nearly impossible for them to talk. For instance, if a girl asks
me if I play croquet, which by the way, is becoming very _passe_
(three last lines verge on poetry) being replaced by a new game
called tennis, I probably say, "No. Do you?" In this way I make
croquet good for a ten minutes' chat, which in the end leads up to
some other subject. Peter, however, doesn't. He says "No," and so
the girl can't go on with croquet, but must begin a new subject.
It is safest to take the subject-headings from an encyclopaedia,
and introduce them in alphabetical order.


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