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fares leaving us not even sufficient
The only thing I could manage, and that with a lot of difficulty, was to borrow just enough, at an exorbitant rate of interest, to pay the second-class fares, leaving us not even sufficient over with which to buy food on our long journey.
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton


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