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The Shuttle

CHAPTER XVI
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Do you suppose your simpering good spirits and your imbecile pink cheeks told me nothing?
They told me exactly this.

I have waited to come upon it, and here it is.

"Do not come to the house--I will meet you in the wood."' "That was the unexpected thing.

It was no use to argue and try to explain.

I knew he did not believe what he was saying, but he worked himself into a rage, he accused me of awful things, and called me awful names in a loud voice, so that he could be heard, until I was dumb and staggering.


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