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... attend a dinner given to Mr. Bullsom. It was at Medchester that he recovered his spirits. He knew the place so well that it was easy for him to gauge and appreciate the altered state of affairs ... hateful suburb," she whispered under her breath. "And the people round here too are so sociable. Papa being a member makes a difference, of course. Then the barracks isn&ap...

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... sarcastic paragraph declined to believe that Brooks had ever received a thousand pounds anonymously challenged him to give the number of the note, and said plainly that he considered it a fraud. ... replied. "Fellow has a lot of branches, and tries to make 'em a sort of family affair. He gets a pile of subscriptions, and declines to publish a balance- sheet. L...

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... who has seen anything of him in the interval between his disappearance and his coming to claim the estates. That means that for pretty well half a lifetime he passed completely out of the world. ... Brooks answered. "It is certain to be a very close contest, but I believe we shall get a small majority. The Jingo element are our greatest trouble. They are all the time trying...

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... comfortable as we are. A larger household means more care, and a man-servant about the place is a thing I could never abide. If you felt like taking sittings at Mr. Thompson's as well as our ... dress the other day, and apologized as though he'd torn it off my back, and the next day he gave me his seat in the car. I always acknowledge him, and he's glad enough to come...

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... being a man governed entirely by one idea at a time, had never seriously contemplated the possibility of himself stepping outside the small arena of local politics. It is certain at any rate ... underneath pale-faced, hollow-eyed, weary, yet for a moment stirred from their lethargy of suffering at the prospect of some passing relief. There was a young woman, hollow-cheeked...

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... branches, and all I got back was a polite reply from your secretary to the effect that the general public even subscribers- -were never allowed in any of the branches as sightseers, and that all ... she exclaimed, "come home with us at once, and explain how you dared to avoid us all this time. What a ghost you A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 3 C...

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... have set going the greatest charitable scheme of the generation, and yet you are so young, so very young." He laughed a little uneasily. In some vague way he felt that he had displeased ... life, and was attired in frock coat and silk hat his tie and collar of a new fashion, even his bearing altered at least so it seemed to her jealous observation. He was certainly looking bet...

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... to keep their places open at all are planning extensions already. The wages bill throughout the country will be the largest next week that has been paid for years. Travellers are off to the Colonies ... existence after a leisurely interval as a matter of course. I have never seen in any one of his actions, or heard in his tone one single indication of anything save selfishness s...

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... collar Mary perhaps looked more than her years, especially by the side of Sybil. As the eyes of the two met, Sybil saw that she was regarded with more than ordinary "One could believe anything," ... think well, you must always feel that your time, instead of having been wasted, has been well and wholesomely spent. I wish I could have that feeling sometimes." Despite...

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... died of the shock. She went to live with an uncle at Medchester, who was good to her, but his household could scarcely have been A Prince of Sinners E. Phillips Oppenheim BOOK 3 CHAPTER ... "You have asked me a very difficult question," he said at last. "She has had a very unhappy sort of life. Her father and mother died in Canada her father shot...

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