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S Billy Bennett wheeled around the corner he saw his mother in the doorway. Also he saw Jean Hammond across the street speaking with Bess Carter,—the Queen of Sheba, the children called her, she was so large and dark and handsome, and had such a royal way, like a sure ’nough queen, one said. Though why children who had never been out of Vine County should know so much about queens no one thought to ask. And Billy did not think of it as strange till Buzz’s grandmother called from behind the window curtain, “Delia, you surely won’t traipse through town with that crowd! How you will look!” Jean, too, crossed the little bridge, climbed the fence, mounted her wheel, and rolled off down the dusty road..
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“I guess so. What else?”I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
me instead fails.There was
“Grand chain,” bawled Geordie evidently feeling his importance, “dos-et-dos, ladies’ chain, swing on the corners, and put some feelin’ in your step.
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“Do you need it right away?” Billy stood his wheel against the steps and flung his books on the porch table. “I love, thou lovest, he loves,” said Clarence, scornfully, in answer to this preposterous question. The young dancers in the hall found the change of music decidedly exhilarating, as an occasional whoop testified. “Well, time is near up younguns; has any one a question to arsk?”.
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