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The Paying Guest

CHAPTER VI
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'I never knew a man who behaved like you do.

You seem to think the way to make anyone like you is to bully them.

We should have got on very much better if you had tried to be pleasant.' 'I don't think we've got along badly, all things considered,' Cobb replied, as if after weighing a doubt.

'We'd a good deal rather be together than apart, it seems to me; or else, why do we keep meeting?
And I don't want to bully anybody--least of all, you.

It's a way I have of talking, I suppose.


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