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Erema

CHAPTER XXXIX
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But come and see our assembly-rooms, literary institute, baths, etc., etc .-- that is what we are urging forward now." "But may I not go first and look for my strange namesake?
Would it be wrong of me to call upon her ?" "No harm whatever," replied my companion; "likewise no good.

Call fifty times, but you will get no answer.

However, it is not a very great round, and you will understand my plans more clearly.

Step out, my dear, as if you had got a troop of Mexicans after you.

Ah, what a fine turn for that lot now!" He was thinking of the war which had broken out, and the battle of Bull's Run.
Without any such headlong speed, we soon came to the dwelling-place of the stranger, and really for once the good Major had not much overdone his description.


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