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St. Ives

CHAPTER XX--AFTER THE STORM
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'Give me time.

'Tis the _tout ensemble_ I must see: the whole as opposed to the details.' 'Mountebank!' he murmured.
'Yes, I have it now; and I see myself with a servant, and that servant is Rowley,' said I.
'So as to have one more link with your uncle ?' suggested the lawyer.
'Very judicious!' 'And, pardon me, but that is what it is,' I exclaimed.

'Judicious is the word.

I am not making a deception fit to last for thirty years; I do not found a palace in the living granite for the night.

This is a shelter tent--a flying picture--seen, admired, and gone again in the wink of an eye.


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