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Jacob’s Room

CHAPTER SIX
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Then--"Well, poor chap, we mustn't sit staring.
What a go! Did you hear what she said?
By God, he looks a fool! Didn't come up to the scratch, I suppose.

All the mustard on the tablecloth.
The waiters laughing." Jacob observed Florinda.

In her face there seemed to him something horribly brainless--as she sat staring.
Out she swept, the black woman with the dancing feather in her hat.
Yet she had to go somewhere.

The night is not a tumultuous black ocean in which you sink or sail as a star.

As a matter of fact it was a wet November night.


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