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Episode of the Sentimental Anarchist



"The coveted stranger had suddenly and violently fallen in love."

cabin, and forsaking his eccentric solitude, had been in the charmer's company for several hours. Wilkins advanced the theory that this sentimental attack might have been responsible for his singular actions; that while talking to himself and waving his arms he had been trying to screw his courage up to the

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