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The Light That Failed

CHAPTER XIV
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I wonder if he has much of his own.

It might be worth more than the bar--I wouldn't have to do any work--and just as respectable as if no one knew.' Dick was not grateful to Bessie for her parting gift.

He was acutely conscious of it in the nape of his neck throughout the night, but it seemed, among very many other things, to enforce the wisdom of getting shaved.
He was shaved accordingly in the morning, and felt the better for it.

A fresh suit of clothes, white linen, and the knowledge that some one in the world said that she took an interest in his personal appearance made him carry himself almost upright; for the brain was relieved for a while from thinking of Maisie, who, under other circumstances, might have given that kiss and a million others.
'Let us consider,' said he, after lunch.

'The girl can't care, and it's a toss-up whether she comes again or not, but if money can buy her to look after me she shall be bought.


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