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Excerpt from All the Year Round, Vol. 7: A Weekly Journal; From December 2, 1871, to May 11, 1872
For me, however, all interest was ah sorbed in my search after the bluebottle ?y. It was nowhere to be seen. It had disappeared, scared away, no doubt, by the noise. It must have ?own through the window of the coucou, thought Id And I cannot tell what a relief it was to my heated imagination to find that the creature was gone.
It was not till this conviction had been fully impressed upon me that I turned again to the young man to offer my timid excuses for the apparent rudeness of which I had been guilty; I told him the cause of my brusque attack, and apologised in the choicest terms I could command for the shock I must have occasioned to his nerves. But the-youth was evidently too much pre occupied, er too indifferent at that mo ment to take offence. He turned a dull heavy gaze. Upon me, and said.
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