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The Gentleman From Indiana

CHAPTER VI
17/30

We have large landscapes in the heart of the city, and what other capital possesses advantages like that?
Next winter the railway station is to have a new stove for the waiting-room.

Heaven itself is one of our suburbs--it is so close that all one has to do is to die.

You insist upon my being French, you see, and I know you are fond of nonsense.

How did you happen to put 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' at the bottom of a page of Fisbee's notes ?" "Was it?
How were you sure it was I ?" "In Carlow County!" "He might have written it himself." "Fisbee has never in his life read anything lighter than cuneiform inscriptions." "Miss Briscoe----" "She doesn't read Lewis Carroll; and it was not her hand.

What made you write it on Fisbee's manuscript ?" "He was with us this afternoon, and I teased him a little about your heading.


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