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Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days

CHAPTER XII
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But I can't as it is.
So it serves you right." Thus ended Alice's performances.
_The Public Captious_ The court rose, and another six or seven hundred pounds was gone into the pockets of the celebrated artistes engaged.

It became at once obvious, from the tone of the evening placards and the contents of evening papers, and the remarks in crowded suburban trains, that for the public the trial had resolved itself into an affair of moles.

Nothing else now interested the great and intelligent public.

If Priam had those moles on his neck, then he was the real Priam.

If he had not, then he was a common cheat.


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