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The Lodger

CHAPTER XXIII
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I'd like to get right away from London, just as far as I could--that I would!" "Up to John-o'-Groat's ?" said Daisy, laughing.

And then, "Why, father, ain't you going out to get a paper ?" "Yes, I suppose I must." Slowly he went out of the room, and, lingering a moment in the hall, he put on his greatcoat and hat.

Then he opened the front door, and walked down the flagged path.

Opening the iron gate, he stepped out on the pavement, then crossed the road to where the newspaper-boys now stood.
The boy nearest to him only had the Sun--a late edition of the paper he had already read.

It annoyed Bunting to give a penny for a ha'penny rag of which he already knew the main contents.


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