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The question stung the other as a leather lash stings quivering flesh.,

Something else was to happen shortly to make Billy feel that his world was full of mysterious agents sent for no other purpose than to give him fresh worries.,

Mrs. Wilson turned to the door, wiped her red face on her apron, and finished emptying a pan of hot cookies into the stone crock, before answering, sternly:,

"The Devil," said the Admiral, "is very bountiful to his servants in his gifts of opportunity."