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1  I am all impatience to be gone.
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2  They were all engaged for the evening.
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3  A little over-precipitance may ruin all.
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4  After all, I thought, we are not injuring her.
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5  This account of you we have from all quarters received.
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6  From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to do.
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7  Be one of them, and you will know all that there is to know.
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8  They were all three standing in a knot in front of the altar.
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9  Yet, with all this, you made me reveal what you wanted to know.
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10  And here he comes, if I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts.
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11  They had driven him home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him.
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12  When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan of campaign.
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13  Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion.
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14  It was all done in an instant, and there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front.
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15  For many years he had adopted a system of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not at once furnish information.
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16  But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.
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17  He was himself red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; so, when he died, it was found that he had left his enormous fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of that colour.
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