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CHAPTER TWO--THE FYNES AND THE GIRL-FRIEND
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She had a little colour now.
She looked straight before her; the corner of her lip on my side drooped a little; her chin was fine, somewhat pointed.

I went on to say that some regard for others should stand in the way of one's playing with danger.

I urged playfully the distress of the poor Fynes in case of accident, if nothing else.

I told her that she did not know the bucolic mind.

Had she given occasion for a coroner's inquest the verdict would have been suicide, with the implication of unhappy love.


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