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e looked extraordinarily severe and the short one extraordinarily glum, Mark thought, to have young men. Mabel looked from the girls to Mark and from Mark to the girls, precisely as if she were exhibiting r

ling. "Ha! Jinks, eh? High Jinks and Low Jinks, what?" He laughed. It struck him as rather comic; and High Jinks a

e. She rather hurried Mark through the kitchen premises and, moving into the

, I do wish you hadn't s

makeshift racket court against a corner of the

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sort of squash rackets in that corner. T

'd listen t

ueeze. "Sorry, old girl, what was it? About High Jinks

don't think it

his arm, he turned and gazed at h

't. Far fr

istinctly and clearly comic. "Well, but it is funny. Don't you see? High Jinks alone is such a funny

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y do not

You make it funnier. High Jinks and

paused severely. "Mark. I do most earnes

xplain the absurd thing, and she simp

and transient discomf