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Springhaven

CHAPTER XXXV
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Let me draw this cork--it is the bottle of the evening.

None but my own fellows understand a cork, and they seem to have got away somewhere.

What the doose are they about--why, halloa, Darling! What's the meaning of all this, at such a time ?" "Well, my lord, you must judge for yourself," said the Admiral, who had made his way quietly from the bottom of the table.

"We know that false alarms are plentiful.

But this looks like business, from the paper it is written on; and I know that old Dudgeon is as solid as myself.


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