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The American

CHAPTER XIX
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It's really very mortifying.

It's like telling your hostess you must go, when you count upon her begging you to stay, and then finding she does no such thing.
'Really--so soon?
You've only just come!' Life doesn't make me any such polite little speech." Newman for some time said nothing, but at last he broke out.

"It's a bad case--it's a bad case--it's the worst case I ever met.

I don't want to say anything unpleasant, but I can't help it.

I've seen men dying before--and I've seen men shot.


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