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"I account for it in this way" said Plowden, after a moment's baffled reflection: "at that time you yourself hadn't grasped the difference between the two classes of shares. You thought the vendor's shares would play a part in the game. Ah! I see I've hit the mark! That was the way of it! And now here, Thorpe! Let all that's been said be bye-gones! I don't want any verbal triumph over you.
It seemed indeed that just one conciliatory statement, even a single gesture on the part of the man whom he had scrupulously avoided for years, would make bye-gones be bye-gones and convert two implacable foes into friends, colleagues indeed in the business of revenge and punishment. But Herr Carovius was done with the world.
On paying my respects to her, I was told in confidence that her husband had orders to make a searching inquiry into the cause of Siráji's death." Debendra Babu saw that his secret was at the woman's discretion. He answered in an apologetic tone: "It was certainly foolish of me to lose my temper with you, but I had some provocation. Forgive me, and let bye-gones be bye-gones.
"No man pale-face or red-skin, can give blow on back of Wyandotté, and see sun set!" "Well well Nick; we will not dispute on this point, but let bye-gones be bye-gones. What has happened, has happened, and I hope will never occur again." "Dat happen to Nick Sassy Nick poor, drunken Nick to Wyandotté, nebber!"
"I didn't look you up, because I didn't think you wanted much to see me" he explained with a certain awkwardness "but bye-gones are all bye-gones. We took a town house, but we didn't like it. It was one endless procession of stupid and tiresome calls and dinners and parties; we got awfully sick of it, and swore we wouldn't try it again. Well there you are, don't you see?
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