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The Double Traitor

CHAPTER XIII
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Two pences they had persuaded me to play, too, and it was the rubber game.

Afterwards he said to me: 'You seem annoyed'; and I replied 'I am annoyed,' and I am.

I come in here to drink coffee and cool myself.
Presently I will cut into another rubber, where that young man is not.
Perhaps our friend Mrs.Benedek will be here.

You and I and Mrs.Benedek, but not, if we can help it, the lady who smokes the small black cigars.
She is very amiable, but I cannot attend to the game while she sits there opposite to me.

She fascinates me.


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