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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT III It is five o'clock of the same day. The scene is the smoking-room, with watts of Leander red, covered by old steeplechase and hunting prints. Armchairs encircle a high-fendered hearth, in which afire is burning. The curtains are not yet drawn across mullioned windows; but electric light is burning. There are two doors, leading, the one to the billiard- room, the other to a corridor. Bill is pacing up and down; Harold, at the fireplace, stands looking at him with commiseration. Bill. What's the time.' Harold. Nearly five. They won't be in yet, if that's any consolation. Always a tough meeta softly] as the tiger said when he ate the man. Bill. By Jove You're the only person I can stand within a mile of me, Harold. Harold. Old boy Do you seriously think you're going to make it any better by marrying her ? Bill shrugs his shoulders, still pacing the room. Bill. Look here I'm not the sort that finds it easjr to say things. Hahold. No, old man. Bill. But I've got a kind of self-respect though you wouldn't think it Habold. My dear old chap Bill. This is about as low-down a thing as one could have done, I supposeaone's own mother's maid; we've known her since she was so high. I see it now thata I've got over the attack. Harold. But, heavens if you're no longer keen on her, Bill Do apply your reason, old boy. There is silence; while Bill again paces up and down. Bill. If you think I care two straws about the morality of the thing Harold. Oh my dear old man Of course not Bill. It's simply that I shall feel such a dad skunk, if I leave her in the lurch, with everybody knowing. Try it yourself; you'd soon see Harold. Poor old chap Bill. It's not as if she'd tried to force me into it. And she's a soft little thing. Why I ever made...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458842688 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458842681 |
| Weight | 0.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $7.15 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 118 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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