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At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
"Oh, Lucy--I shall never forgive myself, never to my dying day.
"The plot thickens," he said, as I entered; "I have just had an answer to my American telegram.
"_I_ say a horse at a gallop, Tom," returned the guard, leaving his hold of the door, and mounting nimbly to his place.