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Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days

CHAPTER III
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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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