Excerpt from Quin Year's eve had not elected to slip through his fingers and roll down the sewer grating, there might have been no story to write. Quin had said, Tails, yes; and who knows but that down there under the pavement that coin of fate was registering Heads, no? It was useless to suggest trying it over, however, for neither of the young privates with town leave for twenty-four hours possessed another coin. The heavier of the two boys, Cass Martel, -the lame one, whose nose began quite seriously, as if it had ...
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Excerpt from Quin Year's eve had not elected to slip through his fingers and roll down the sewer grating, there might have been no story to write. Quin had said, Tails, yes; and who knows but that down there under the pavement that coin of fate was registering Heads, no? It was useless to suggest trying it over, however, for neither of the young privates with town leave for twenty-four hours possessed another coin. The heavier of the two boys, Cass Martel, -the lame one, whose nose began quite seriously, as if it had every intention of being a nose, then changed abruptly into a button, - scraped the snow from the sewer grating with his cane, and swore savagely under his breath. But Quin shrugged his shoulders with a slow, easy-going laugh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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