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"Not at all," rejoined Jen, coldly. "I can understand her reason for telling the lie. She wanted to shield--" "You don't think her life is in danger?" asked David, in a faltering tone. "What does it matter if we do miss the train?" she insisted. "We can take the early one in the morning. We'll be home almost as soon.".
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Here David, who had been fidgeting with his cigar, broke in impatiently.I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
me instead fails.There was
"Not much. You'll wait here in solitude till she comes. I'm not going to have you spout it out before any old person, and get us into hot water, perhaps. Here's Elinor now. Come on, Norn, we're about dead, standing on these flinty-hearted steps. Got the sandwiches you promised?"
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"I don't care two straws about that," said David, coldly. "I have not spoken to her yet, but all the same I intend her to become my wife. I give you fair warning, Maurice, that you are not to poach upon my preserves." "I don't know," she said, in a stolid tone. "I am no charlatan, major," rejoined Etwald, coolly. "I ask no money for my performance." The major looked at him for a moment or two, then, with a new idea in his head, he took David by the hand and led him into the chamber of death..
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