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Doctor Claudius, A True Story

CHAPTER XIX
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I will send and get some horses directly.

The very thing, by Jove!" And he went to the door.
"How are you going to get anything fit to ride in New York, at such short notice ?" asked Margaret, laughing at his impetuosity.
"There's a fellow here lends me anything in his stable when I am in New York," he answered, half out of the room.

"I'll go myself," he called back from the landing, and shut the door behind him.

"Upon my word," he said to himself as he lighted a cigarette in the cab, and drove away to his friend's stable, "she is the most beautiful thing I ever saw.

I almost let the cat out of the bag, just to please her.


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