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Wysłany: Pon 13:10, 28 Lut 2011 Temat postu: she exclaimed aloud. "He's held out twenty-five |
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bird's surprise as to our own.
She had literally seized the packageas though she were drowning and grasping at a life buoy. Even the
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surprise at his hasty departure could not prevent herhoweverfrom literally tearing the wrapper offand in
the sheltering shadow of the table cloth pouring forth the little white pellets in her lapcounting them as a
miser counts his gold
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she exclaimed aloud. "He's held out twenty-five [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]!"
I don't know which it was that amazed me mostthe almost childish petulance and ungovernable temper of the
girl which made her cry out in spite of her surroundings and the circumstancesor the petty rapacity of the
man who could stoop to such a low level as to rob her in this seeming underhand manner.
There was no time for useless repining now. The call of outraged nature for its daily and hourly quota of
poison was too imperative. She dumped the pellets back into the bottle hastilyand disappeared.
When she came backit was with that expression I had come to know so well. At least for a few hours there
was a respite for her from the terrific pangs she had been suffering. She was almost happysmiling. Even that
false happinessI feltwas superioyilai:
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Anythingper-
taining to Lief Wallen's death
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