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 1        2|     vexed. It struck her as a joke that MEN should have got
 2        3|     Vandeuvres, who thought a joke was intended.~“Extremely
 3        4|       tomorrow.”~He wanted to joke about it, but she swept
 4        5|   doing his best to force the joke. “Stand on guard! One—two—
 5        6|       had been trying hard to joke about it all with a touch
 6        8|    They can have their little joke out,” she concluded, “but
 7       11|    were being taken in by the joke. Others looked serious and
 8       12|  people to chaff her.~“A poor joke, eh?” she said. “Bad luck,
 9       12| nature and ready to laugh and joke in the friendliest way with
10       12|         He even ventured on a joke, for he turned to La Faloise
11       13|      type. But then it was no joke after all! When in his delight
12       13|     It seemed an awfully good joke to kiss each other under
13       13|     for she thought it a good joke and was glad of the opportunity
14       14|      it!”~The smallpox was no joke. Fontan had been near having
15       14|    added Simonne. “It’ll be a joke. Perhaps, after all, it’