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"Good for you, Calthy," cried Lanigan Beam, advancing with outstretched hands. "How do you do? Old Sultan is at his tricks again, is he, declining to back? But you got the better of him that time, and did it well, too."
In his admiration of the feat he had witnessed, the credit of which he gave entirely to his old and well-tried fiancee, Lanigan forgot for the moment his plan for the benefit of Lethbury.