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"I shouldn't ha' thought o' that if I'd lived to hundred-and-two." "I see it all now plain enough, mates," continued the gunner. "I was hitting at that chap one minute in the dark, and then he was gone.
To and fro they paced, balancing sometimes with hysterical precision on the ledge of the parapet, passing each other at whisker's length, but cutting each other dead! Not a cat had a look or a sniff for his fellow; not a cat so much as guessed at another's existence. Among those hundred-and-three restless spirits there was not a cat but did not affect to believe that a hundred-and-two were away!
Pellew, turning to go and leaving his eyes behind him, collided with the Earl, who was adhering to a conscientious rule of always being punctual for dinner. "Oh Percy! You'll lose your train. Stop a minute! there was something I wanted to say. What was it?... Oh, I know. Gwen's address in London have you got it? She's going to stay with her cousin, you know hundred-and-two, Cavendish Square.
Among those hundred-and-three restless Spirits there was not a cat that did not affect to believe that a hundred-and-two were away! It was horrible, the inhumanity of it. Francis not the wise man, etc. It was about two o'clock in the afternoon. I had watched these beasts at their feverish exercises for nearly an hour before I perceived that they were gradually hemming me in.
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