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Erema

CHAPTER XXI
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Yes, yes.
Let them come to good meat, and then off with their heads." And his wife said that she was sure she could do it.

When it comes to a question of tare and tret, false sentiment must be excluded.
At the moment, these things went by me as trifles, yet made me more impatient.

Being older now, and beholding what happens with tolerance and complacence, I am only surprised that my good friends were so tolerant of me and so complacent.

For I must have been a great annoyance to them, with my hurry and my one idea.

Happily they made allowance for me, which I was not old enough to make for them.
"Go to London, indeed! Go to London by yourself!" cried the Major, with a red face, and his glasses up, when I told him one morning that I could stop no longer without doing something.


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