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Rhoda Fleming

CHAPTER XVI
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Not to perceive this, is Youth's, error when it hears old gentlemen talking at their ease.
On the third morning of their stay at Fairly, Algernon came into Edward's room with a letter in his hand.
"There! read that!" he said.

"It isn't ill-luck; it's infernal persecution! What, on earth!--why, I took a close cab to the station.
You saw me get out of it.

I'll swear no creditor of mine knew I was leaving London.

My belief is that the fellows who give credit have spies about at every railway terminus in the kingdom.

They won't give me three days' peace.


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