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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XIV
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Those two would have writhed like head and tail of a worm, at a division on the way to the station.

Point a finger at Peridon, you run Catkin through the body.

They're a fabulous couple.' Victor cut him short.

'I deny that those two are absurd.' 'And Catkin's toothache is a galvanic battery upon Peridon.' Nataly strongly denied it.

Peridon and Catkin pertained to their genial picture of the dear sweet nest in life; a dale never traversed by the withering breath they dreaded.
Fenellan then, to prove that he could be as bad in his way as Colney, fell to work on the absent Miss Priscilla Graves and Mr.Pempton, with a pitchfork's exaltation of the sacred attachment of the divergently meritorious couple, and a melancholy reference to implacable obstacles in the principles of each.


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