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Page 292 - ... grown so' crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.
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| Title | History of Prose Fiction, Volume 2 Bohn's libraries Bohn's standard library History of Prose Fiction, John Colin Dunlop |
| Author | John Colin Dunlop |
| Publisher | G. Bell and sons, 1906 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 22 May 2007 |
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