[Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days by Arnold Bennett]@TWC D-Link bookBuried Alive: A Tale of These Days CHAPTER III 32/42
That's why I always keep friendly with magistrates.
It's so frightfully thrilling, sitting on the bench with them. _Man_: There won't be any inquest.
But there's something queer in it. You see, Priam Farll was never in England.
Always abroad; at those foreign hotels, wandering up and down. _Woman (after a pause)_: I know. _Man_: What do you know? _Woman_: Will you promise not to chatter? _Man_: Yes. _Woman_: I met him once at an hotel at Ostend.
He--well, he wanted most tremendously to paint my portrait.
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