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Castle Richmond

CHAPTER IX
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And then he took me by the waist, and kissed me, oh, so often.

And all the while his tears were running like the tears of a girl." And Lady Fitzgerald, as she told the story, could not herself refrain from weeping.
"And did he say anything afterwards about this man ?" "Yes; not at first, that is.

Of course I asked him who he was as soon as I thought he could bear the question.

But he turned away, and merely said that he was a stupid man about some old London business, and that he should have gone to Prendergast.

But when, after a while, I pressed him, he said that the man's name was Mollett, and that he had, or pretended to have, some claim upon the city property." "A claim on the city property! Why, it's not seven hundred a year altogether.


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