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Will Warburton

CHAPTER 36
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They would walk together, as when they were among the Alps.

Why, even then, had his heart prompted, had honour permitted, he could have won her.

He believed now, what at the time he had refused to admit, that Franks' moment of jealous anger was not without its justification.
Again they would meet among the mountains, and the shop in Fulham Road would be seen as at the wrong end of a telescope--its due proportions.
They would return together to England, and at once be married.

As for the grocery business-- Reason lost itself amid ardours of the natural man.
He paid little heed to the country through which he was passing.

He flung himself on to the dark platform, and tottered drunkenly in search of the exit.


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