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You've always said I should have an inquiring mind, she said. I have. But not an interrupting one.

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Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing, Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, Will, I mean. Halt turned in his saddle to regard the younger man and raised an eyebrow. I may be almost senile in your eyes, Horace, but there's no need to explain the blindly obvious to me. I'd hardly have thought you were referring to Tug.
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Halt Halt, said Gilan stepping out into the open.
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