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The Town Traveller

CHAPTER XXI
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She shall know when we get there, not before.
This climate is bad for me, killing me; in fact, I hope to start in a few days, just us three, I and my wife and the little girl.

She shall use the title if she likes, if not we'll leave it behind us.

Ah, that was my misfortune, you know.

It oughtn't to have come to me." He was seized with a hiccough, which in a few moments became so violent that he had to abandon the attempt to converse.

When it had lasted for half an hour Gammon found his position intolerable.


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