I Forbid the Banns! — page 14: what you’re looking at

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4. “T FORBID THE BANNS!” “The long drop be hanged! Come along for that poker before the steward’s bell rings for dinner. You’re too good a listener, Charlton, that’s what’s the matter with you—it’s the matter with both of us, and it has encouraged the diplomatist until he is ready to talk us out of house and home.” “T'll finish this business with you another time, South- cote,’ said Charlton, suffering himself to be led away to the smoking room in the midships deck house of the steamship Carnarvon Castle. CONNIE IOOKS (C0)