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Thyrza

CHAPTER XV
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Though it was often hard to go out at night and leave his little ones, he did so that his resolve might not suffer.

He and they lived in one room, in the same house which sheltered Miss Totty Nancarrow.
On the evening which Egremont spent at Eastbourne, Grail came across Bunce on the way home from the factory.

They resumed a discussion interrupted a day or two before, and, as they passed the end of Newport Street, Bunce asked his companion to enter for the purpose of looking at a certain paper in which he had found what seemed to him cogent arguments.

They went up the dark musty staircase, and entered the room opposite to Totty's.
'Hollo!' Bunce cried, finding no light.

'What's up?
Nellie! Jack!' It was usual, since the eldest child was at the hospital, for the landlady to come and light a lamp for the two little ones when it grew dusk.


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