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Fraternity

CHAPTER XXI
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"There's a bolt on both sides." Reassured, Cecilia walked round the room as far as this was possible, for it was practically all furniture.

There was the same little wrinkle across her nose as across Thyme's nose when she spoke of Hound Street.
Suddenly she caught sight of Hilary.

He was standing with his back against the door.

On his face was a strange and bitter look, such as a man might have on seeing the face of Ugliness herself, feeling that she was not only without him, but within--a universal spirit; the look of a man who had thought that he was chivalrous, and found that he was not; of a leader about to give an order that he would not himself have executed.
Seeing that look, Cecilia said with some haste: "It's all very nice and clean; it will do very well, I think.

Seven shillings a week, I believe you said.


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