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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: Yes?"
He stared at me.
"Don't know about the palm in particular," he said, after a
while, "but being so much with the 'orses it do tend to- "
"That'll do," I said hurriedly. "Lo, here is a crown, by the
vulgar erroneously denominated a 'dollar'. Take it, and drink
the lady's health before you go to bed."
He took the coins greedily, and touched his hat. Then he
partially undressed, in the traditional fashion, and put them
away, apparently in a wallet next to his skin.
I turned to the girl.
The Brother of Daphne |
