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'It's a pretty little hat, she answered, and he pointed to the spider-legged piers and to a high headland, a sort of green cap over the ocean. 'Do you know that the fellow who owns that building has made a fortune? said Montgomery, pointing to the roofs which began to appear above the edge of the common. 'Did he really? replied Kate, trying to appear interested.
The cloth that covered the table was riddled by moths, and the spider-legged chairs were covered with dust. "A conviction seized me that the old bureau must have belonged to this room, and I soon found the place where I judged it must have stood. But the same moment I caught sight of a portrait on the wall above the spot I had fixed upon.
"Well, you must know, this was the way of it and it do make me larf yet when I think o' the face o' that spider-legged critter goin' at the rate of twenty miles an hour or thereabouts wi' that most awful-lookin' grizzly b'ar peltin' after him. Hist! Look there, Tolly. A chance for your popgun."
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