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"I'm not at all sure," Under-Secretary Sternwheeler said, "that I fully understand the necessity for your ... ah ... absenting yourself from your post of duty, Mr. Retief. Surely this matter could have been dealt with in the usual way—assuming any action is necessary."
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It all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a fresh step in the logic of things, but as something expected. It is in such a wise that memory plays its pranks for good or ill; for pleasure or pain; for weal or woe. It is thus that life is bittersweet, and th...
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Mr. Roscoe rang the bell, and, in answer, a servant entered the library, where he sat before a large and commodious desk.
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\"What are you going to do with that horse, Ben Brayton?\"
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Elizabeth Houghton sat on a big stone beside the road, just where the highway forked, her school books still tucked under her arm. Her round blue eyes stared straight before her, as she tried, with one last effort, to make up her mind. For a whole week she had been attempting to reach a decision: that very morning she had told herself ...
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Ideas, she said. Oh, as for ideas Well? I hazarded, as for ideas? We went through the old gateway and I cast a glance over my shoulder. The noon sun was shining over the masonry, over the little saints effigies, over the little fretted cano
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