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The Thirty Nine Steps
John Buchan
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The Man Who Died I returned from the City about three o・clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn・t get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda- water that has been standing in the sun. ．Richard Hannay,・ I kept telling myself, ．you have got into the wrong ditch, my friend, and you had better climb out.・ It made me bite my lips to think of the plans I had been building up those last years in Bulawayo. I had got my pile - not one of the big ones, but good enough for me; and I had figured out all kinds of ways of enjoying myself. My father had brought me out from Scotland at the age of six, and I had never been home since; so England was a sort of Arabian
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