Chapter 1. Jimmie Higgins Meets The Candidate
_ CHAPTER I. JIMMIE HIGGINS MEETS THE CANDIDATE
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"Jimmie," said Lizzie, "couldn‘t we go see the pictures?"
And Jimmie set down the saucer of hot coffee which he was in the act of adjusting to his mouth, and stared at his wife. He did not say anything； in three years and a half as a married man he had learned that one does not always say everything that comes into one‘s mind. But he meditated on the abysses that lie between the masculine and feminine intellects. That it should be possible for anyone to wish to see a movie idol leaping into second-story windows, or being pulled from beneath flying express trains, on this day of destiny, this greatest crisis in history!
"You know, Lizzie," he said, patiently, "I‘ve got to help at the Opera-house."
"But you‘ve got all morning!"
"I know； but it‘ll take all day."
And Lizzie fell silent； for she too had learned much in three years and a half of married life. She had learned that wor

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