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| | Lavengro, the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest - CHAPTER LXIII |
 | | No; a man of the middle age, and rather above the middle height, dressed in a plain suit of fl, made his appearance, and sat down in a chair at some distance from me, but near to the table, and appeared to be lost in thought. |
 | | 'I never read newspapers,' said the stranger, 'nor, indeed, - ' Whatever it might be that he had intended to say he left unfinished. |
 | | Scarcely had I uttered these words when the stranger laid his hand, with seeming carelessness, upon the table, near one of the glasses; after a moment or two he touched the glass with his finger as if inadvertently, then, glancing furtively at me, he withdrew his hand and looked towards the window. |
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