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CHAPTER SEVEN--ON THE PAVEMENT
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I couldn't give him the slip." "Why didn't you ask him to leave you ?" I inquired curiously.
"He would not have taken any notice," she went on steadily.

"And what could I have done then?
I could not have started quarrelling with him--could I?
I hadn't enough energy to get angry.

I felt very tired suddenly.

I just stumbled on straight along the road.

Captain Anthony told me that the family--some relations of his mother--he used to know in Liverpool was broken up now, and he had never made any friends since.


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