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"Oh well something must be done," said he decisively. "But didn't you put something in the seat to RESERVE it?" "Only that New Statesman but he's moved it." The man still sat with the invisible sneer-grin on his face, and that peculiar and immovable plant of his Italian posterior. "Mais cette place etait RESERVEE " said Francis, moving to the direct attack.
"Yes!" said Aaron. "And he's TAKEN it !" cried Francis in indignation. "And knows it, too," said Aaron. "But !" and Francis looked round imperiously, as if to summon his bodyguard. But bodyguards are no longer forthcoming, and train-guards are far from satisfactory. The fat man sat on, with a sneer-grin, very faint but very effective, round his nose, and a solidly-planted posterior.
He quite enjoyed the pantomime of the young foreigners. The other passengers said something to him, and he answered laconic. Then they all had the faint sneer-grin round their noses. A woman in the corner grinned jeeringly straight in Francis' face. His charm failed entirely this time: and as for his commandingness, that was ineffectual indeed. Rage came up in him.
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