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Gets worse , I think , as the wedding-day approaches . Trying to drown his apprehensions , I suspect . Funny fellow , Giddings . But he 's all right from noon to nine P.M. '' `` I think we 'll have to organize a dipsomaniacs ' hospital for our crowd , '' said I , `` if things keep going on as they are tending now ! I did n't think Giddings was so many kinds of an ass ! '' My complainings were cut short by our entrance into the presence of Mr. Elkins and the New England bankers . I asked to be excused from partaking of the refreshments which were served .