The Incomplete Amorist
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\"No. The chemises aren\'t cut out. I haven\'t had time. There are enough shirts to go on with, aren\'t there, Mrs. James?\" said Betty.
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\"No. The chemises aren\'t cut out. I haven\'t had time. There are enough shirts to go on with, aren\'t there, Mrs. James?\" said Betty.
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\"All aboard for Oak Farm!\" \"Are we all here; nobody missing?\" \"What a relief to get out of the hot city, with summer coming on!\"
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In sending forth this book on \'South London,\' the successor to my two preceding books on \'London\' and \'Westminster,\' I have to explain in this case, as before, that it is not a history, or a chronicle, or a consecutive account of the Borough and her suburbs that I offer, but, as in the other two books, chapters taken here and the...
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This is the book of Lappo Lappi, called by his friends the careless, the happy-go-lucky, the devil-may-take-it, the God-knows-what. Called by his enemies drinker, swinker, tumbler, tinker, swiver. Called by many women that liked him pretty fellow, witty fellow, light fellow, bright fellow, bad fellow, mad fellow, and the like.
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In the dusk of a spring evening, Helen Caniper walked on the long road from the town. Making nothing of the laden basket she carried, she went quickly until she drew level with the high fir-wood which stood like a barrier against any encroachment on the moor, then she looked back and saw lights darting out to mark the streets she had l...