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The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

CHAPTER XIX
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"I am certain that I was on the point of suggesting that she send up for Maud.

We might have taken them out together to-night, Mr.Waddington--had dinner at Frascati's, drunk cheap champagne, and gone to a music-hall!" "Burton," Mr.Waddington said calmly, "I do not for a moment believe that we should so far have forgotten ourselves.

I don't know how you are feeling, but the atmosphere of this place is most distasteful to me.
These tawdry decorations are positively vicious.

The odor, too, is insufferable." Burton rose hastily to his feet.
"I quite agree with you," he said.

"Let us get out as quickly as we can." "Something," Mr.Waddington went on, "ought to be done to prevent the employment of young women in a public place.


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