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Marguerite

Franklin P. Adams

Marguerite was an agreer. She strove, and not without success, to please. She hated an argument, one reason perhaps being—I found this out later—that she couldn’t put one forth on any subject.

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Belinda

Franklin P. Adams

I remember Belinda. She was arguing with another young woman about the car fare. “Let me pay,” said Belinda; and she paid.

“There,” I mused, “is a perfect woman, nobly planned.”

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Anne

Franklin P. Adams

In winter, when the ground was white,
I thought that Anne would be all right;
In summer, quite the other way,
I knew she’d never be O. K.

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Elaine

Franklin P. Adams

There have been more beautiful girls than Elaine, for I have read about them, and I have utter faith in the printed word.

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