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A ROOM WITH A VIEW
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thoughts. At last she spoke, and with fitting gravity.

"Emerson the name was, not Harris."

"What name?"

"The old man's."

"What old man?"

"That old man I told you about. The one Mr. Eager was so unkind to."

He could not know that this was the most intimate conversation they had ever had.