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Excerpt from The Silver Fox

One of the double doors at the end of the room opened, and a small, dark man appeared.

Awfully sorry to have kept you all waiting, he said abjectly. I'm afraid it's a bad business; they say that there's nothing to be had here on Sundays at this time of year, unless it's ordered beforehand.

Oh Lord I ejaculated Lady Susan, bring ing her foot and the shovel down with a crash. Do you mean to say there's nothing to eat?

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Excerpt from The Silver Fox

Lady Susan had never been so hungry in her life. So, for the sixth time, she declared between loud and unbridled yawns. She worked her chair across the parquet towards the fire-place, dragging the hearthrug into folds in her progress, and put her large and well-shod feet on the fender.

"What a beast of a fire! When you've quite done with it, Bunny, I shouldn't mind seeing it just the same. You are a selfish thing!"

In obedience to this rebuke Major Bun-bury moved an inch or two to one side.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.