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The Eagle’s Heart

CHAPTER XVII
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Still, as you say, it's none o' my business.
If she can't persuade you, I can't.

Come in, and I'll introduce you to the managers of the National----" "Can't now, I will later." "All right, so long! Come in any time." Mose stepped into a barber shop to brush up a little, for he had acquired a higher estimate of the princess, and when he entered the dining room of the Palace he made a handsome figure.

Whatever he wore acquired distinction from his beauty.

His hat, no matter how stained, possessed charm.

His dark shirt displayed the splendid shape of his shoulders, and his cartridge belt slanted across his hip at just the right angle.
The woman waiting for him smiled with an exultant glint in her half-concealed eyes.
"Sit there," she commanded, pointing at a chair.


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