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Rujub, the Juggler

CHAPTER XIV
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In the first place, he would have defended himself desperately, and, in the next, he might have made his way through them and escaped; but, as I said, with Bathurst there would be no occasion for their firing." "Why didn't he come in to say goodby before he went?
that is what I wanted to ask you, Doctor, and why I came up here.

I wanted to have spoken to him, if only for a moment, before he started.

I tried to catch his eye as he went out of the room with you, but he did not even look at me.

It will be so hard if he never comes back, to know that he went away without my having spoken to him again.

I did try this morning to tell him that I was sorry for what I said, but he would not listen to me." "You will have an opportunity of telling him when he comes back, if you want to, or of showing him so by your manner, which would be, perhaps, less painful to both of you." "I don't care about pain to myself," the girl said.


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