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The Moonstone

CHAPTER XXIII
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Whenever a woman tries to put you out of temper, turn the tables, and put HER out of temper instead.

They are generally prepared for every effort you can make in your own defence, but that.

One word does it as well as a hundred; and one word did it with Limping Lucy.

I looked her pleasantly in the face; and I said--"Pooh!" The girl's temper flamed out directly.

She poised herself on her sound foot, and she took her crutch, and beat it furiously three times on the ground.


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