The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

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what salary

month in my last place w

ands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling passion. 'How could anyo

s than you imagine,' said I. 'A little Fre

utshell. If you have not, you are not fined for the rearing of a child who may some day play a considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have why

er seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, however, seeing perhaps t

two little shining slits amid the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies half th

in debt to my tradesmen, the advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something unnatural