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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER XXII
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He makes them feel." "Mr.Stenson wrote me about it," Catherine told her companion, with a little smile.

"He said that no dignity that could be thought of or invented would be an adequate offering to Julian for his services to the country.

For the first time since the war, Labour seems wholly and entirely, passionately almost, in earnest.

Every one of those delegates went back full of enthusiasm, and with every one of them, Julian, before he has finished, is going to make a little tour in his own district." "And after to-morrow," the Bishop remarked with a smile, "I suppose he will not be alone." She pressed his arm.
"It is very wonderful to think about," she said quietly.

"I am going to try and be Julian's secretary--whilst we are away, at any rate." "It isn't often," the Bishop reflected, "that I have the chance of a few minutes' quiet conversation, on the day before her wedding, with the woman whom I am going to marry to the man I think most of on earth." "Give me some good advice," she begged.
The Bishop shook his head.
"You don't need it," he said.


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