The Gay Rebellion
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by Robert W. Chambers
XXII
AS they left the house an hour later, walking down the path slowly,shoulder to shoulder, she said:
"Mr. Brown, I _want_ you to like that house."
A sudden and subtly hideous idea glided into his brain.
"_You_ don't believe in suffragettes, do you?" he said, forcing a hollowlaugh.
"Why, I _am_ one. Didn't you know it?"
"_You!_"
"Certainly. Goodness! how you did run! But," she added with innocentsatisfaction, "I think I have secured every bit as good a one as the oneGladys chased out of a tree with her horrid marmoset."