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Excerpt from The House at High Bridge: A Novel
Of course he's here, said the girl, looking straight into her mother's face, and not at all at the neat-clad male figure which had just taken several brisk steps in front of them.. Where did you think he'd be, mamma? She went on, as if the question were meant to pierce depths of maternal conscience. A little more, and I declare he'd have heard you. You're so careless in that way.
The two women walked much slower than the man was doing. They were both jaded by their shopping in the hot city, and moved along as if their bundles were an almost painful clog.
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