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At last, having tri, the knife betwixtathwart the leaves lit upon the broad blade of the knife and rasped it, I took pleasure to heed how strong and sineere ed beneath the brown skin ofsteel this way and that I fell to joyous thought of ht!" says I to myself, "Death ever coht!" But now, little by little,a-co up, I cursed the sun that it ht And presently to anger was added a growing fear lest ht (by soht, even now, be slipping fro to my feet I was minded to seek hiht?" I asked ht of day Death findeth an added bitterness Why wait for night, then?"

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