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Confidence

CHAPTER XV
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Gad, I believe that to keep me off she would like to cut him in two and give half to each of them! I 'm afraid of that little woman.

She has got a little voice like a screw-driver.

But for all that, if I could get away from this cursed place, I would keep the girl in sight--hang me if I would n't! I 'd cut the races--dash me if I would n't! But I 'm in pawn, if you know what that means.

I owe a beastly lot of money at the inn, and that impudent little beggar of a landlord won't let me out of his sight.

The luck 's dead against me at those filthy tables; I have n't won a farthing in three weeks.


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