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has been exquisitely sweet becomes bitter, and continues bitter. You taste the jam first, and the powder afterwards.'
He turned to the mantelpiece, took up a cigarette, and then, with a sudden trembling hand, threw it into the grate.
' And you pay for it all,' he said—' you pay over and over again. Good-night, Ginger.'
