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Show THAT "LAST STRAW" AGAIN This Time It Meant Real Tragedy in the Lives of Two Young and Loving Mortals. "It's the last straw!" she exclaimed bitterly. She tapped on the floor with her right toe, always, with her, a sign of repressed passion. "The last straw !" she repeated. He shuffled his feet in embarrassment. embarrass-ment. Angrily she shrugged herself to her feet. "I'm going!" she cried. "I would not stay here another second, even for a moment." And she swept out, and there was nothing left for him to do but follow. "I didn't know it was the last straw, or I wouldn't have taken it," he apologized apol-ogized miserably. And she, who had never sipped a lemonade without a straw in her life, and never intended to, sniffed scornfully, scornful-ly, without replying, and refrained from inviting him in when they reached reach-ed her house. |