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The Shuttle

CHAPTER IX
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I've not seen him since that moment." "He is in the second cabin, I suppose," Bettina answered, "but I have not seen him, either." "We ought to get up a testimonial and give it to him, because he did not gibber," said Blanche.

"He was as rude and as sensible as you were, Betty." They did not see him again, in fact, at that time.

He had reasons of his own for preferring to remain unseen.

The truth was that the nearer his approach to his native shores, the nastier, he was perfectly conscious, his temper became, and he did not wish to expose himself by any incident which might cause him stupidly and obviously to lose it.
The maid, Louise, however, recognised him among her companions in the third-class carriage in which she travelled to town.

To her mind, whose opinions were regulated by neatly arranged standards, he looked morose and shabbily dressed.


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