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QTJK ADVENTURE IN THE HIGHLANDS. 347
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we brid t with we the gazed spray at the ; then deep black turnin pool g with its flecks of snowy foamwhich , lay far below—and the ragged rocks which formed
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quietness in the hotel , I opened my door y , salong " like the dark Charlie passag ' s thoug e to Charlie htlessness ' s room to . leave The door his was door ajar open —" Just
his hotel regular , " I thoug brea ht th ; i ng he push appeared ing , it before to be me asleep I entered , i but . on th From my
uttering his name he answered at _^ once , though n raer a drowsy Charlie voice . I have come to eak to on matters of "you
importance . , Are you sufficiently sp awake to listen to me ? " here " Oh t . yes this ; h but w ! i t it murder tters of im onl portance a robber can ? brin and g you
were " So you a long so long in our the in room the s room a withou without t sp eak speaking ing y ! I have 1 ? " y not been in y
the " room Well for perhaps ten seconds I have ; for you I ' ve did been make dream rather ing a , heavy Charlie supp . " er _,,
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my cheek g as , ypu bent over me . "
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Qtjk Adventure In The Highlands. 347
QTJK ADVENTURE IN THE HIGHLANDS . 347
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 347, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/59/
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