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Audrey

CHAPTER VI
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MASTER AND MAN The two men, left alone, turned each toward the interior of the store, and their eyes met.

Alike in gray eyes and in dark blue there was laughter.
"Kittle folk, the Quakers," said the storekeeper, with a shrug, and went to put away his case of pins and needles.

Haward, going to the end of the store, found a row of dusty bottles, and breaking the neck of one with a report like that of a pistol set the Madeira to his lips, and therewith quenched his thirst.

The wine cellar abutted upon the library.

Taking off his riding glove he ran his finger along the bindings, and plucking forth The History of a Coy Lady looked at the first page, read the last paragraph, and finally thrust the thin brown and gilt volume into his pocket.


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