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In the Cage

CHAPTER XIII
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There was a word wrong, but she had lost the right one, and much clearly depended on her finding it again.

The girl, therefore, sufficiently estimating the affluence of customers and the distraction of Mr.Buckton and the counter-clerk, took the jump and gave it.

"Isn't it Cooper's ?" It was as if she had bodily leaped--cleared the top of the cage and alighted on her interlocutress.

"Cooper's ?"--the stare was heightened by a blush.

Yes, she had made Juno blush.
This was all the greater reason for going on.


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