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Elster’s Folly

CHAPTER IX
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I said Hart let me go on, and never came on himself; if that's a story, I'll swallow Dawkes's skiff and the sculls too." "You said he was in his room.

You know you did." "I said I supposed so.

It's usual for a man to go there, I believe, to get ready for dinner," added young Carteret, always ripe for a wordy war, in his antipathy to the countess-dowager.
"_You_ said he had come in;" and the angry woman faced round on Captain Dawkes.

"You saw them going into their rooms, you said.

Which was it--you did, or you didn't ?" "I did see Carteret make his appearance; and assumed that Lord Hartledon had gone on to his room," replied the captain, suppressing a laugh.


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