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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER XXXII
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He watched his friend striding off, incredulously, and then commenced running in pursuit.
'Harrington, I give in; I surrender; you reduce me to prose.

Thy nine have conquered my nine!--pardon me, old fellow.

I'm immensely upset.
This is the first day in my life that I ever felt what indigestion is.
Egad, I've got something to derange the best digestion going! 'Look here, Harrington.

What happened to you today, I declare I think nothing of.

You owe me your assistance, you do, indeed; for if it hadn't been for the fearful fascinations of your sister--that divine Countess--I should have been engaged to somebody by this time, and profited by the opportunity held out to me, and which is now gone.


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