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In the Year of Jubilee

CHAPTER 8
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When you've had enough of this kind of thing we can strike off into the quiet streets.

If you were a man, which I'm glad you're not, I should say I was choking for a glass of beer.' 'Say it, and look for a place where you can quench your thirst.' 'It must be a place, then, where you can come in as well.

You don't drink beer, of course, but we can get lemonade and that kind of thing.
No wonder we get thirsty; look up there.' Following the direction of his eyes, Nancy saw above the heads of the multitude a waving dust-canopy, sent up by myriad tramplings on the sun-scorched streets.

Glare of gas illumined it in the foreground; beyond, it dimmed all radiance like a thin fog.
'We might cut across through Soho,' he pursued, 'and get among the restaurants.

Take my arm again.


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