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New Grub Street

CHAPTER V
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Poverty! Poverty! And for hours he could not sleep.

His eyes kept filling with tears, the beating of his heart was low; and in his solitude he called upon Amy with pitiful entreaty: 'Do not forsake me! I love you! I love you!' But that went by.

Six days, five days, four days--will one's heart burst with happiness?
The flat is taken, is furnished, up there towards the sky, eight flights of stone steps.
'You're a confoundedly lucky fellow, Reardon,' remarked Milvain, who had already become very intimate with his new friend.

'A good fellow, too, and you deserve it.' 'But at first I had a horrible suspicion.' 'I guess what you mean.

No; I wasn't even in love with her, though I admired her.


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