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However impervious to outside influences a man's character may be -- and Shears is one of those men upon whom ill-luck takes hardly any hold -- there are yet circumstances in which the most undaunted feel the need to collect their forces before again facing the chances of a battle.
"I shall take a holiday to-day," said Shears.