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34 A SOCIAL METEOR, kind of a game for money, for when people play in a hurry they cannot keep their wits about them. Now Mrs. Thorne isn’t the best hand at poker in the world, and yet she’s wild over it, especially when she is winning. But when luck is against her she sometimes gets—-well, almost Snappish, as you saw to-day.” “I know she does,” replied Georgie; “she always was quick-tempered. Even as a child I remember she usually made a pretty desperate struggle for her own way.” ‘‘And if she did not get it she would cry, eh?” asked Lee. “Ves, generally,” replied Georgie, smiling, ‘and I’ve known her to scratch or bite, occasion- ally.” ‘Well, she does that still, only her nails are longer now and make deeper wounds,” observed Lee. “She does not mean any harm by it, for she’s the most generous, whole-souled woman I ever knew,” returned Georgie. _ ‘Perhaps not. But at the same time she ought to try to exercise some kind of control over her- self,” declared Lee; “‘as a general thing her own friends will give in, as I say, rather than have a EomicbooksrGo