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Living Alone

CHAPTER IX
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Probably not even the penultimate one.

You flatter yourself." "Why, surely some of you ladies, movin' in the 'ighest circles, knows of gentlemen in the Foreign Office that would do a little shut-eye job, for old times' sake," suggested the Mayor.
This was a challenge to Miss Ford.

She ceased to gaze haughtily on Sarah Brown.

"Men from three departments of the Foreign Office are fairly regular Wednesday friends of mine," she said.

"But I could hardly trouble any of them on--er--so trivial a matter." There was silence, while Miss Ford toyed gingerly with one of the paper packets out of the witch's drawer.


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