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In Luck at Last

CHAPTER XII
20/26

But what does it concern us to know what some men do ?" "Oh, not much.

Only if I were a man like you, I wouldn't consent to be a tame tom-cat--that is all; but perhaps you like it." She meant to insult and offend him so that he should not come any more.
But she did not succeed.

He only laughed, feeling that he was getting below the surface, and sat down beside the piano.
"You amuse me," he said, "and you astonish me.

You are, in fact, the most astonishing person I ever met.

For instance, you come from America, and you talk pure London slang with a cockney twang.


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