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The Mystery of Metropolisville

CHAPTER XVII
9/18

I s'pose mebbe she don't like my going' arter that air Frenchman's gal.

But I didn't mean no 'fense, you know--ten thousand in yaller gold's a nice thing to a feller like me what's been raised rich, and's kinder used to havin' and not much used to gittin'.

I wouldn't want her to take no 'fense, you know.

'Ta'n't like's ef I'd a-loved the red-skin Catholic.

I hadn' never seed 'er.


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