Cartoner

"Cartoner," said Deulin, dropping his voice half a dozen tones, and leaning both elbows on the table in a final way, which dispensed with the necessity of reply.

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"Cartoner," Paul Deulin had once said to a common friend,

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All the passenger traffic was turned to the westward, and a friendly deck-hand, having leisure, came and gave Cartoner his views upon cricket, in which, as was natural in one whose life was passed on running water, his whole heart seemed to be absorbed.

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It was to one of these streets that Cartoner had told his driver to proceed, and the man had some difficulty in finding the number.

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"What do they talk of -- what do they think -- all day?" said Cartoner.

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Cartoner sipped his coffee, and looked reflectively at his companion over the cup.

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"That is the only thing to be done," said Cartoner.

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And she looked at Cartoner with a sort of wonder in her eyes.

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Railways are still conducted in some parts of Europe on the prison system, and Cartoner, glancing into the third-class waiting room, saw that it was thronged.

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Cartoner was friendly, but did not take advantage of this affability to make inquiries about the _Minnie_.

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