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The Secret Agent

CHAPTER XII
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I've it all." "How on earth did you manage to get hold of it already ?" he marvelled.
"He gave it to me," she murmured, suddenly subdued and trembling.
Comrade Ossipon put down his rising surprise with a firm hand.
"Why, then--we are saved," he uttered slowly.
She leaned forward, and sank against his breast.

He welcomed her there.
She had all the money.

Her hat was in the way of very marked effusion; her veil too.

He was adequate in his manifestations, but no more.

She received them without resistance and without abandonment, passively, as if only half-sensible.


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