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Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

CHAPTER X
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After we had finished the whole operation--I forgot to say that we had thrown the coal out on the lawn to avoid any complication--he quite broke down.

He offered us to take his whole house and keep it." "You don't do that, do you ?" asked the outsider.
"Oh no, never," said Fortescue.

"We've made a very strict professional rule against it.

We found that some of the younger men were apt to take a house when they were given it, and we had to frown down on it.

But, gentlemen, I feel that when Mr.Thornton says that he never goes down into a cellar there must be a story behind it.


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