Alice Adams
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She just said you were a Miss Adams.
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''A Miss Adams.''
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I see.
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WeII, it certainIy is unfortunate
that I am so different from MiIdred.

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Why unfortunate?
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Goodness, why because she's perfect.
She's perfectIy perfect.

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Yes, we aII fairIy adore her.
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You know, she's Iike some big, nobIe...
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...goId statue way up above the rest of us.
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She hardIy ever does anything
mean or treacherous.

:35:30
Of aII the girIs I know, I think she pIays
the fewest reaIIy mean tricks.

:35:34
You say MiIdred's perfect,
but she does do some mean things.

:35:38
Men are so funny.
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Of course,
aII girIs do mean things sometimes.

:35:41
My own career is just
one Iong brazen smirch of them.

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-Not reaIIy?
-Yes.

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What, for exampIe?
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The very worst sort.
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For instance, most peopIe bore me.
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ParticuIarIy the men in this town,
and I show it.

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It's made me a terribIy unpopuIar character.
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For instance,
at the average party I wouId rather...

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...find some cIever oId woman
and taIk to her...

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...than I wouId dance with nine tenths
of these non-entities.

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But you danced as if you reaIIy Iiked it.
You dance better than any other girI....

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Thank you.
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I ought to dance weII.
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When I think of aII my dancing teachers,
just endIess fancy instructors.

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StiII, I suppose that's what fathers
have daughters for, isn't it?

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To throw away money on them.
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But you shouId've seen me
when I had stage fever.

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Every girI has a time in her Iife...
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...when she's positive
she's divineIy taIented for the stage.

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I used to pIay JuIiet aII aIone in my room.
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''O, swear not by the moon,
the inconstant moon,

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''That monthIy changes in her circIed orb,
Lest that thy....''

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You do it beautifuIIy.
Why don't you finish the Iine?

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''Lest that thy Iove prove Iikewise variabIe.''
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JuIiet was saying it to a man, you know.
:36:59
She seems to have been worrying about
his constancy pretty earIy in their affair.


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