Kirkland, Joseph. The Captain of Company K . Chicago: Dibble Publishing Co., 1891. [format: book], [genre: fiction]. Permission: Northern Illinois University
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Chapter I. How the Captain Came to be a Captain. Sara

OH, Mr. Fargeon! why are men so foolish?"

Her voice suggested weariness of some old subject, perhaps a suit long urged by him and denied by her. Her slender hand lay more heavily on his arm; and (as he saw by the gaslight they were passing) her upturned face was brightened by a smile that shone through its habitual seriousness like a star through rifted clouds. The face looked sweet and grave and perfect -- almost saintly, surrounded as it was by a halo of snowy knitted woolen fabric worn to keep out the evening air.

"Why are men so foolish?"

"Because women are so fair, I suppose, Miss Penrose."

"I'd be willing to stop being -- fair, if you choose to call me so -- if it would persuade you to stop being foolish about me."

"Perhaps I might never have begun being foolish -- if

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