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Our Friend the Charlatan

CHAPTER IX
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"Thank goodness!" Then, with sudden alarm, "I suppose you're making no idiotic mistake ?" "That kind of mistake, Lady Ogram," responded Mr.Kerchever with a tolerant motion of the eyebrows, "is not quite in my way.

Indeed, I'm not in the habit of making mistakes of any kind.

You may be sure I have taken every precaution before coming here with such news as this." "All right! What are you angry about?
Lawyers and doctors and parsons--there's no talking with them, they're so touchy.

Can't you go on?
Here's a girl falls out of the clouds, and I'm to show no curiosity about her! You drive me crazy with your roundabout nonsense.

Go _on_, can't you!" Mr.Kerchever eyed his client curiously.


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