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The Postmaster’s Daughter

CHAPTER VIII
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First syllable of Hawkshaw and second of Furneaux--the latter Anglicized, of course." "And vulgarized." "You prefer Furshaw, perhaps ?" "Either effort is feeble for a man who can write about South America, and be lucid.

Do you smoke this stuff, may I ask ?" While talking, he had smelt and destroyed the second cigarette.
"If it's a fair question, what the devil do _you_ smoke ?" cried Hart.
"Nothing.

I'm a non-smoker.

My profession demands a clear intellect, not a brain atrophied by nicotine." "Piffle! Carlyle and Bismarck were smokers." "Who reads Carlyle now-a-days?
And what modern German pays heed to Bismarck's dogmas?
Look at that pipe of yours.

It was once a pure ivory white.


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