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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 9
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A vixen, too! What did you shoot her with?
You're too young to have a gun.

Sneaked your Father's revolver, I suppose ?' Oswald thought it was better to be goldenly silent.

But it was vain.
The Master of the Hounds made him empty his pockets, and there was the pistol and the cartridges.
The magistrate laughed a harsh laugh of successful disagreeableness.
'All right,' said he, 'where's your licence?
You come with me.

A week or two in prison.' I don't believe now he could have done it, but we all thought then he could and would, what's more.
So H.O.began to cry, but Noel spoke up.

His teeth were chattering yet he spoke up like a man.
He said, 'You don't know us.


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