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Mr. Isaacs

CHAPTER VII
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If they have not had them, they will, I have no doubt.

Heaven is just, and will not leave you to the conversational mercies of the entertaining tiger and the engaging shikarry." "By Jove, Mr.Griggs, that was a brilliant idea: and, as you say, they may all get the measles yet.

The fact is, I have set my heart on this thing.

Miss Westonhaugh said she had never seen a tiger, except in cages and that kind of thing, and so I made up my mind she should.

Besides, it will be no end of a lark; just when nobody is thinking about tigers, you go off and kill a tremendous fellow, fifteen or sixteen feet long, and come back covered with glory and mosquito bites, and tell everybody that Miss Westonhaugh shot him herself with a pocket pistol.


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