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The Patrician

CHAPTER VII
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We had nothing to do with the paragraph.

It's one of those incidents where one benefits against one's will.

Most unfortunate that she came out on to the green with Lord Miltoun; you know what people are." "It's the head-line that does it;" said the third Committee-man; "they've put what will attract the public." "I don't know, I don't know," said the little-eyed man stubbornly; "if Lord Miltoun will spend his evenings with lonely ladies, he can't blame anybody but himself." Courtier looked from face to face.
"This closes my connection with the campaign," he said: "What's the address of this paper ?" And without waiting for an answer, he took up the journal and hobbled from the room.

He stood a minute outside finding the address, then made his way down the street..


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