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Old Broadbrim was received in New York with profuse congratulations, but he took all with his usual modesty, feeling that he had kept his promise with Nora to find the murderer of Custer Kipp, even though he were compelled to track him around the world.
— from Old Broadbrim Into the Heart of Australia or, A Strange Bargain and Its Consequences by St. George Rathborne
I should expect a curious stare if I carried wax models of church keys even to a locksmith in a London suburb; and Jasper had no time during the week before Christmas to make a journey to London.
— from The Problem of 'Edwin Drood': A Study in the Methods of Dickens by Nicoll, W. Robertson (William Robertson), Sir
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