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Septimus

CHAPTER IX
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As they looked too dismal for tips, he concerned himself with them no more.

The train started.

Emmy shook with cold, in spite of her fur-lined jacket.

Septimus took off his overcoat and spread it over their two bodies as they huddled together for warmth.

After a while her head drooped on his shoulder and she slept, while Septimus sucked his empty pipe, not daring to light it lest he should disturb her slumbers.


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