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"Lupin positively refused to walk down the Parade with me because I was wearing my new straw helmet with my frock-coat."

billiards, knowing I never play, and in fact disapprove of the game. Cummings said he must hasten back to Margate; whereupon Lupin, to my horror, said: "I'll give you a game, Gowing—a hundred up. A walk round

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