Fergus Hume
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“I am very angry,” pouted the maid.
“In heaven's name, why?” questioned the bachelor.
“You have, so to speak, bought me.”
“Impossible: your price is prohibitive.”
“Indeed, when a thousand pounds--”
“You are worth fifty and a hundred times as much. Pooh!”
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