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He was , and it was he who

had pardoned He had always been sorry for that poor devil, Tyson

Tyson are of this feeling, and he generally resented it; but at

tiave him a curious sense of moral support

The two men sat and smoked in a silence which Tyson, as usual, was the

first to break

"I wouldn't like to swear," said he, "that I don't go abroad again before

long It's ame here It's too

quick, too hard, and the rules are too cursedly co it up, if I were you"

"Wait? Wait? I've done nothing but wait ever since I came to this

detestable country, and my chance never turned up It never will turn

up--here"

"Why not?"

"My own fault, I suppose I've spentround and round the

earth passionately in a circle I don't say that perpetual rotation is a