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The Paying Guest

CHAPTER VIII
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And I shall answer no more questions.' 'Of course not.

But that's quite enough.

You've been playing a double game; if you haven't told lies, you've acted them.

What sort of a wife would you make?
How could I ever believe a word you said?
I shall have no more to do with you.' He turned away, and, in the violence of the movement, knocked over a little toy chair, one of those perfectly useless, and no less ugly, impediments which stand about the floor of a well-furnished drawing-room.

Too angry to stoop and set the object on its legs again, he strode towards the door.


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