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Denzil Quarrier

CHAPTER IX
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She was to come back with Mr.Becket and the boys, and then go to her people.

I got her promise that she would write to me and make an appointment somewhere or other .-- More whisky ?" Glazzard declined; so Denzil replenished his own glass, and went on.

He was now tremulous with the excitement of his reminiscences; he fidgeted on the chair, and his narrative became more jerky than ever.
"Her letter came, posted in London.

She had taken leave of the Becket party, and was supposed to be travelling homewards; but she would keep her word with me.

I was to go and see her at an hotel in the West End.
Go, I did, punctually enough; I believe I would have gone to Yokohama for half an hour of her society.


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