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And there are things he might have done--things that many men easily would.
Therefore I believe in him, and I was right, at first, in knowing I was going to.
So I haven't"-- and she stated it as she might have quoted from a slate, after adding up the items, the sum of a column of figures--"so I haven't, I say to myself, been a fool." "Well, are you trying to make out that I've said you have? All their case wants, at any rate," Bob Assingham declared, "is that you should leave it well alone.
It's theirs now; they've bought it, over the counter, and paid for it.
It has ceased to be yours." "Of which case," she asked, "are you speaking ?" He smoked a minute: then with a groan: "Lord, are there so many ?" "There's Maggie's and the Prince's, and there's the Prince's and Charlotte's." "Oh yes; and then," the Colonel scoffed, "there's Charlotte's and the Prince's." "There's Maggie's and Charlotte's," she went on--"and there's also Maggie's and mine.
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