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The Window-Gazer

CHAPTER I
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And the luxuries you will enjoy at our place will certainly be unaccustomed ones.

Didn't you even ask for references ?" Her tone irritated the professor unaccountably.
"Are we nearly there ?" he asked, disdaining to answer.

"I am extremely cold." "You will have a nice climb to warm you," she told him grimly, "all up hill!" "'A verdant slope,'" quoted the professor sweetly, "'rising gently from salt water toward snowclad peaks, which, far away,--'" They caught each other's eyes and laughed.
"Here is our landing," said the girl quite cheerfully.

"And none too soon! I suppose you haven't noticed it, but the 'Tillicum' is leaking like a sieve!".


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