[You Never Know Your Luck Complete by Gilbert Parker]@TWC D-Link bookYou Never Know Your Luck Complete CHAPTER XVII 41/77
I know what you mean, and you are quite right.
Mr.Crozier never says 'look here' or 'mad,' and he speaks better than any one I ever heard.
Now, we certainly must get on." After an instant she began again. "-- While I was angry at you a moment for breaking your promise, I cannot reproach you for it, because I, too, bet on the Derby, but I bet on a horse that you had said as much against as you could.
I did it because you had very bad luck all this year and lost, and also last year, and I thought--" For several minutes, with greater deliberation than was usual with her, Kitty dictated, and at the end of the letter she said, "I am, dearest, your--" Here Mona sharply interrupted her.
"If you don't mind I will say that myself in my own way," she said, flushing. "Oh, I forgot for the moment that I was speaking for you!" responded Kitty, with a lurking, undermeaning in her voice.
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