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`` In that event I should know how to be revenged '' , replied `` C. '' `` I should put on my ` ground ' wire and cut off communication between you and that little fellow at Z ! '' Em . laughed , and perhaps feeling herself rather weak on that point , subsided , and Nattie began , `` Sentiment -- '' But the pretty little speech on that subject she had all ready was spoiled by an operator -- who evidently had none of it in his soul -- usurping the wire with the prefaced remark , `` Get out ! '' The wire being unusually busy , this was all the conversation Nattie and `` C '' had during the day , but Just before six o'clock came the call , `` B m -- B m -- B m -- X n. '' `` B m , '' immediately responded Nattie . `` I merely want to ask for my character before saying g. n. -LRB- good night -RRB- . Have n't I been amiable to-day ? '' was asked from X n. `` Very , but there is no merit in it , as Mark Tapley would say , '' replied Nattie .