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Edward, sensitive as always, was lookingat her with a puzzled face. He asked gently:"I've upset you? Why?" Lucy drifted into the room. She was in the middle of oneof her conversations. (
here to brood upon his position. The mere week-end, to which he had unwillinglycommitted himself, had now lengthened out, owing to the exigencies connectedwith sudden and violent death.David, who preferred the contemplation of an Academic Past or the earnestdiscussion of a Left Wing Future, had no aptitude for dealing with a violent andrealistic present. As he had told Lady Angkatell, he did not read the News of theWorld.But now the News of the World seemed to have come to The Hollow.Murder! David shuddered distastefully. What would his friends think? How didone, so to speak, take murder? What was one's attitude? Bored? Disgusted? Lightlyamused? Trying to settle these problems in his mind, he was by no means pleased tobe disturbed by Midge. He looked at her uneasily as she sat beside him.He was rather startled by the defiant stare with which she returned his look. Adisagreeable girl of no intellectual value. She said, "How do you like yourrelations?" David shrugged his shoulders. He said: "Does one really thinkabout relations?" Midge said: "Does one really think about anything?"Doubtless, David thought, she didn't. He サaid almost graciously: "I was analyzingmy reactions to murder." "It is certainly odd," said Midge, "to be In one." Davidsighed and said: "Wearisome. ..." That was quite the best attitude. "All the clichesthat one thought existed only in the pages of detective Fiction!""You must be sorry you came," said Midge. David sighed. "Yes, I mighthave been staying with a friend of mine in London." He added: "He keeps a LeftWing bookshop." "I expect it's more comfortable here," said Midge. "Doesone really care about being comfortable?" David asked scornfully. "There aretimes," said Midge, "when I feel I don't care about anything else." "Thepampered attitude to life," said David. "If you were a worker--" Midgeinterrupted him. "I am a worker. That's just why being comfortable is soattractive. Box beds, down pillows--early morning tea softly depositedbeside the bed--a porcelain bath with lashings of hot water—and delicious bath salts.The kind of easy chair you really sink into ..." Midge paused in her catalogue."The workers," said David, "should have all these things." But he was a littledoubtful about the softly deposited early morning tea which sounded impossiblysybaritic for an earnestly organised world. "I couldn't agree with you more," saidMidge heartily.
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couldn't think of how to make thing
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wouldn't be called for hours. She w
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wasn't going to give it back!" "No,
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it, yes--but she'd got something el
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Chapter IIIjohn christow sat in his
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"You are always willing to say anyt
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oom. A tiresome woman, a woman with
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Gerda shook her head.Carve the mutt
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Page 33 and 34: Chapter VIIAs they got into the car
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Page 37 and 38: firing revolvers. Henry Angkatell's
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Page 61 and 62: Chapter XIIIthey had the cold ducks
Page 63 and 64: said Henrietta thoughtfully. "I sup
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Page 87 and 88: had 10the toothache."Henrietta said
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He said, "The adjourned inquest's t
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it." Grange stared at him. He said:
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Angkatell, clasping Gerda's hand, m
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thought—she and Edward, linked, a
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Chapter XXVIIImidge, lying dry eyed
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understand. It was because of Henri
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Chapter XXIXgerda rolled over to th
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guessed at and brought to life, car
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word. He was asking me to protect G
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Chapter XXXAs she drove towards Lon
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Mrs. Crabtree looked at her for a m
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