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| 4. At Maidenhead | H. G. [Herbert George] Wells |
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"But the thanklessness of playing this lone hand!" The doctor watched his friend's resentful black silhouette against the lights on the steely river, and said nothing for awhile. "Why did I ever undertake to play it?" Sir Richmond appealed. "Why has it been put upon me? Seeing what a poor thing I am, why am I not a poor thing altogether?" |
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