Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 715
utonce he was out on the street, he blinked rapidlyand stumbled along with downcast eyes. It was a bitter hour. His mind went back tothe day, now seven months in the past, when hehad left Millersville to make his fortune in thecity. He recalled very vividly the jaunty man-ner in which he had said… … HELLO! CALLED A DEEP VOICE BEHIND HIM in large printed letters, he had inscribed threewords, his motto for the adventures that laybefore him: WIN OR LOSE!The words had an adventurous sound, a come-what-may sort of ring. Of course he was going towin! And now—well, he had lost—that was all.There were…
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