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He frowned , then he laughed a little , and began mounting a fine new butterfly specimen . `` Other men marry and spend their hard earnings in that way , on love , '' said he . `` Why should I not spend mine after this fashion if I choose ? '' That noon , as he passed out of the store on his way home to dinner , Ina and Charlotte came out of the dressmaker 's opposite . They looked flushed and happily excited . Charlotte carried a large parcel . They rushed past without seeing him at all , as he gained the opposite sidewalk .