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Excerpt from That Stick
Oh, there's that stick. What can he want?' sighed one of a pair of dignified elderly ladies, in black Silk, to the other, as in a quiet country-town street they saw themselves about to be accosted by a man of about forty, With the air of a managing clerk, who came up breathlessly, with a ¿ush on his usually pale cheeks.
Miss Lang; I beg pardon May I be allowed a few words with 'miss Marshall? I know it is unusual, but I have something unusual to tell her.' Nothing distressing, I hope, Mr. Morton,' said one of the ladies, startled.
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