`` Hand me a chair , quick , '' implored Selwyn . `` Leo , are you going to commit matrimony in this headlong fashion ? Are you sure you 're grown up ? '' `` Six feet is a pretty good imitation of it , is n't it ? '' grinned Leo . `` Brace up , old fellow . It 's not so bad as it might be . She 's quite a respectable girl . We wrote you all about it three weeks ago and broke the news as gently as possible . '' `` I left for the East a month ago and have been wandering around preying on old college chums ever since . Have n't seen a letter . There , I 'm better now . No , you need n't fan me , Sis . Well , no family can get through the world without its seasons of tribulations . Who is the party of the second part , little brother ? '' `` Alice Graham , '' replied Mrs. Grant , who had a habit of speaking for her children , none of whom had the Carston nose . `` Alice Graham ! That child ! '' exclaimed Selwyn in astonishment . Leo roared .
`` Come , come , Sel , perhaps we 're not very progressive here XXXXX Croyden , but we do n't actually stand still .
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