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Phil the Fiddler

CHAPTER XXI
3/11

But I must go down to my work.
My clothes are in the tub, and the water will get cold." "Will you be kind enough to tell me when he goes away ?" asked Phil.
"Sure I will.

Rest aisy, darlint.

He shan't get hold of you." Pietro's disappointment may be imagined when he found that the victim whom he had already considered in his grasp was snatched from him in the very moment of his triumph.

He felt nearly as much incensed at Mrs.
McGuire as at Phil, but against the former he had no remedy.

Over the stalwart Irishwoman neither he nor the padrone had any jurisdiction, and he was compelled to own himself ignominiously repulsed and baffled.
Still all was not lost.


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