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Born in Exile

CHAPTER III
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Stay with us over tomorrow.

I only wish I were not obliged to go to London on Wednesday .-- Look, Fanny, isn't that a hawk, over Cowley Bridge ?' 'Do you feel you would like to shoot it ?' asked Miss Moorhouse--who a moment ago had very closely examined Peak's face.
'To shoot it--why do you ask that ?' 'Confess that you felt the desire.' 'Every man does,' replied Buckland, 'until he has had a moment to recover himself.

That's the human instinct.' 'The male human instinct.

Thank you for your honesty.' They drove on, and by a wide circuit, occasionally stopping for the view, returned to the Old Tiverton Road, and so home.

By this time Louis Warricombe and Mr.Moorhouse were back from their walk.


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