Adam Bede - Chapter 1

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any chance

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comer

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far-reaching

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visions

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roomy

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workshop

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a tent-like

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pile of planks

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slanting

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sunbeams

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the fine

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grain

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a rough grey

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shepherd-dog

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lying with his nose

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between his forepaws

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occasionally wrinkling

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his brows

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to cast

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a glance

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It was to this workman that

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the strong baritone belonged

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the sound of plane and

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hammer

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the sonorous voice

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subsided

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broke out again with

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renewed vigour

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a large-boned

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muscular man

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with a back so flat and a head

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so well poised

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he drew himself

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up

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a more distant

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survey of his work

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to win the prize for

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feats of strength

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long supple

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hand

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broad

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fingertips

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tall

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stalwartness

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keen

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glance

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strongly marked, prominent and

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mobile eyebrows

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The idle

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tramps

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scarcely ever

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spoke

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The concert of

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tools

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working

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intently

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a burly

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red-haired man

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a sharp glance of

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surprise

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what’s a wanting

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to it?

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A loud roar of

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laughter

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look round

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confusedly

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he said, in a gentler

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tone

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The face was large and

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roughly hewn

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burst out

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afresh

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clapped his hands to his

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head

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coloured over the brow and

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crown

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a small lithe

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fellow

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You’ll mayhap be

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making such a slip yourself some day

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you’ll laugh on the

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other side of your mouth then

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Catch me at it, Adam.

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It’ll be a good while afore my head’s full of...

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writing his

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inscription

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making, by way of

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preliminary

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Let it alone, or I’ll

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shake the soul out of your body.

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and when in repose

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had no other beauty than such as belongs to an expression of...

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a plucky

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small man

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Let be,

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Addy, let be.

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in a persuasive

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tone

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don’t let’s have a

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quarrel about it.

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You may’s well try to

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turn a waggon in a narrow lane.

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Come, that’s

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wise of you, Ben

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I shan’t loose him till

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he promises to let the door alone

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good-humoured

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honest intelligence

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an uncommon pretty

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young woman

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Why, you’re getting as big a

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saint as Seth

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Never you

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bother yourself about me, Ben.

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but I don’t hinder you from making a

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fool of yourself with it.

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we must have something beside

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Gospel in this world

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But to hear some o’ them preachers,

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you’d think as a man must be doing nothing all his life but shutting his eyes and looking what’s a-going on inside him.

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running after some preacher

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a-praying and a-groaning

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it’s like

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enough

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none so

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fond of...

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By the same

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token

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my wife’s been

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a plaguing on me to...

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There’s reason in

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what you say

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observed Seth,

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gravely.

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turned many and idle fellow into an

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industrious one

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he’ll do his work none

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the worse for that

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you’ve got a joke

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against me as’ll last you your life

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the more’s the

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pity

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you are a downright

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good-hearted chap

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seems only to render

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more conspicuous the remarkable difference of...

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set up your

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bristles at every bit of fun

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You mustn’t take me

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unkind. I wasn’t driving at you in what I said just now

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you’re like your dog Gyp -

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you bark at me sometimes, but you always lick my hand after.

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the cessation of the

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tools

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a tone of

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indignation

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Look there, now! I can’t

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abide to see

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as if they took no pleasure in their work, and was

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afraid of doing a stroke too much

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looked a little

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conscious

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his eyebrows have less prominence and more

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repose

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you won’t be so flush on

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working for nought.

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said Adam,

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still wrathful

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what’s age got

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to do with it, I wonder?

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I hate to see a man’s arms drop down as if

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he was shot, before the clock’s fairly struck

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leave a chap

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alone, will you?

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You were finding fault with

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preachers a while ago - you are fond enough of preaching yourself.

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You may like work better than play, but I like play better than work;

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that’ll accommodate you - it leaves you the more to do

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this exit speech,

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which he considered effective

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shouldered his

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basket

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confiding and

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benignant

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lingered, and

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looked wistfully at Adam, as if he expected him to say something

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said Seth, rather

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timidly

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but being destitute of

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that vehicle for his emotions

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worthy

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personages

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destined to appear more

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phlegmatic than nature had made him

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gentle modulation of

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voice

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he had not a great

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range of expression

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looking pleasant and

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mellow

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allowing you to discern the

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exact contour

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bright and

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speckless

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as clean as a

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white boulder at ebb tide

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some speckled

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fowls

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an illusory

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expectation of...

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he’d be glad to

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have you to supper with him, I’ll warrant

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Adam hastened with

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long strides

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presently struck

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across the fields

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the tune which had

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all day long been running in his head

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a coronal

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arch that predominates very decidedly over the brow.

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taking no notice of the

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sarcasm against himself

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Egyptian

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sorcerer