The Man Who Laughs


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The two combatants stood for a few seconds motionless in the ring,  
whilst the watches were being compared. They then approached each other  
and shook hands.  
Phelem-ghe-Madone said to Helmsgail,--  
"I should prefer going home."  
Helmsgail answered, handsomely,--  
"The gentlemen must not be disappointed, on any account."  
Naked as they were, they felt the cold. Phelem-ghe-Madone shook. His  
teeth chattered.  
Dr. Eleanor Sharpe, nephew of the Archbishop of York, cried out to  
them,--  
"Set to, boys; it will warm you."  
Those friendly words thawed them.  
They set to.  
But neither one nor the other was angry. There were three ineffectual  
rounds. The Rev. Doctor Gumdraith, one of the forty Fellows of All  
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