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Erema

CHAPTER XXVII
10/23

I do not run away very early.

Come at half past four to this door, and knock.

I hear every sound at this door in my room; and the place will be growing quiet then." He showed us out into a narrow alley through a heavy door sheathed with iron, and soon we recovered the fair light of day, and the brawl and roar of a London street.
"Now where shall we go ?" the Major asked, as soon as he had found a cab again; for he was very polite in that way.

"You kept early hours with your 'uncle Sam,' as you call Colonel Gundry, a slow-witted man, but most amusing when he likes, as slow-witted men very often are.

Now will you come and dine with me?
I can generally dine, as you, with virtuous indignation, found out at Southampton.


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