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basking in the sun, counting the baby carriages, watching the children, spotting the men slipping in and coming out with stuff, and especially the women, some foreign-speaking ones, who came out with their arms full of bundles. I saw several of my former pupils and talked with them, and one woman, a friend of Mrs. Simons, who came up the street with a superior smile on her face, and stepped democratically inside and came out with a little sherbet glass done up. She explained that they were the same as some she had for which she had paid $1.00, that she had broken one and wished to replace it, that she had broken the one that she bought earlier in the morning on her way home, and so was back for another. Just how many she had got for a dollar she did not say and I did not ask. Pretty soon Madeleine joined me and later her mother with a pile of dishes which Madeleine took and, while her mother went back for more stuff, Madeleine and I heated up her father's car which was parked on the other side of the square while he was in conference at some meeting, and put the dishes in on the front seat for him to carry home. A hardware merchant who was in the doorway of his shop with 2 lawn mowers asked her if she didn't want to buy one. She replied that she didn't want to buy one, but would like to have one given to her, and to please deliver it at her address in Warren that P.M. The man with the mowers and another farther back in the doorway seemed immensely pleased with her reply. Then we jogged back across the square, and soon Madeleine appeared 

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