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I can't take your refusal for final, don't you see, without first being sure I have convinced you at least that you are wrong in thinking me a fish or a mudturtle, and wrong in attributing a lack of intelligence to me which could betray me into confusing great things with little, little with great." "Oh, Gerald, you oughtn't to keep on trying! I do wish you wouldn't! No!
And I'm such a fool that I'm nearer to it this minute than I like to be by a long sight. I'm fond enough of you for almost anything, and you know it, but I must keep my level head. It can't be done a greyhound tied down to a mudturtle. I know what I'm like, no disparagement meant, Mrs. Hawthorne, and what you're like, and I won't let myself forget.
'Wot's that you say, Jock? said a Cockney voice to his left. 'I was obsairvin', said the other, 'that Number Twenty-sax is occupied this mornin'. 'Ow yus, so it is. I was 'oping as 'ow me pal the Duke of Mudturtle would buy the plice next to mine. But he don't look a bad cove, wot you can see under 'is farncy 'ead-dress. 'I dinna think he can be o' the airmy.
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