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Lord!" said Mr. Polly in unfeigned surprise.
Found drowned he was. There was a lot of talk in the place."
Never heard of it," said Mr. Polly. "I'm a stranger--rather."
In the Medway near Maidstone. He must have been in the water for
days. Wouldn't have known him, my sister wouldn't, if it hadn't been
for the name sewn in his clothes. All whitey and eat away he was."
"Bless my heart! Must have been rather a shock for her!"
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It was a shock," said Annie, and added darkly: "But sometimes a
shock's better than a long agony."
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No doubt," said Mr. Polly.
He gazed with a rapt expression at the preparations before him. "So
I'm drowned," something was saying inside him. "Life insured?" he
asked.
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We started the tea rooms with it," said Annie.
Why, if things were like this, had remorse and anxiety for Miriam been
implanted in his soul? No shadow of an answer appeared.
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