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Blown to Bits

CHAPTER XV
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He is goot, right down to zee marrow--kind, amiable, oonselfish, obliging, nevair seems to zink of himself at all, ant, abof all zings, is capable.
Vat he vill do, he can do--vat he can do he vill do.

But he is sad--very sad." "I have observed that, of course," said Nigel.

"Do you know what makes him so sad ?" The professor shook his head.
"No, I do not know.

Nobody knows.

I have tried to find out, but he vill not speak." The Orang-Kaya, or rich man, as this hill chief was styled, had provided lodgings for his visitors in the "head-house." This was a large circular building erected on poles.


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