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The Queen’s Cup

CHAPTER 6
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It is just as hot and not a hundredth part so exciting.

I have only had three weeks of it, and I am positively sick of it already." "Then why on earth do you accept, Mallett?
I took good care not to get into it.

What can a man want better than this?
A well-cooked dinner, eaten with a chum, and then a quiet rubber; and perhaps once a fortnight or so I go out to a dinner party, which I like well enough as a change.

I always get plenty of shooting in winter, and am generally away for three months, but I am always heartily glad to get back again." "I am afraid I should get as tired of the club as I am of society, Colonel." "You have plenty of time, lad.

I am twenty years your senior.


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