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Following the Equator

CHAPTER XXXIX
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Give it to me in installments." He did it.

But there did not seem to be any short ones, except Mousa--which suggested mouse.

It was out of character; it was too soft, too quiet, too conservative; it didn't fit his splendid style.

I considered, and said-- "Mousa is short enough, but I don't quite like it.

It seems colorless -- inharmonious--inadequate; and I am sensitive to such things.


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