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THE UNKNOWN MR. KENT

big enough to take it out of your hide, you big, ill-tempered chump!"

And Ivan, knowing a lot that was not embodied in his employer's speech, and having absorbed that strange but true philosophy of Owen Wister's conveyed through the Virginian, merely grinned and began unlacing the baron's shoes.

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