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The 9.43
we should miss the 9.43. Well, if there is no 9.43, we cannot catch it; and what you don't catch, you miss!"
"Absurd nonsense! If you do not catch scarlet fever, you do not say that you miss it!"
She replied: "We are not talking about scarlet fever; we are talking about trains!"
"Bah!" I exclaimed. I should have added more, but at this moment the clock on the dining-room mantelpiece struck ten.
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