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But to my fancy he looked absolutely devilish at that moment. Still, I was less afraid of him than I had been since the day I stole the treaty. "Well," I said slowly, "I think it's time that you left me now." "That's your answer? You can't mean it." "I do mean it, just as much as I meant to refuse you the three other times that you did me the same honour.
You asked me to hear what you had to say to-night, and I have heard it; so there's no reason why I shouldn't press the electric bell for my chauffeur to stop, and--" "Do you know that you're pronouncing du Laurier's doom, to say nothing of your own ?" "No.
I don't know it." "Then I haven't made myself clear enough." "That's true.
You haven't made yourself clear enough." "In what detail have I failed? Because--". "In the detail of the document.
I've told you I know nothing about it. You've told me you know everything.
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