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The Sleeper Awakes

CHAPTER II
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Luck comes to a man very often when he's not looking." Warming seemed to doubt the quality of the luck.

"I just missed seeing you, if I recollect aright." "You came back by the trap that took me to Camelford railway station.

It was close on the Jubilee, Victoria's Jubilee, because I remember the seats and flags in Westminster, and the row with the cabman at Chelsea." "The Diamond Jubilee, it was," said Warming; "the second one." "Ah, yes! At the proper Jubilee--the Fifty Year affair--I was down at Wookey--a boy.

I missed all that....

What a fuss we had with him! My landlady wouldn't take him in, wouldn't let him stay--he looked so queer when he was rigid.


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