"Лорд Дансени. The Lost Silk Hat (Потерянная шелковая шляпа) (англ.)" - читать интересную книгу автора

Oh, it seems all right.
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*Well*, then.
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All these crack jobs do seem all right.
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But I'm not asking you to rob the house.
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Don't seem as if you are, certainly, but I don't like
the looks of it; what if there's things what I can't
'elp taking when I gets inside?
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I only want my hat -- Here, I say, please don't go away
-- here's a sovereign, it will only take you a minute.
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*What I want to know* --
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Yes?
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-- Is what's *in* that hat?
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What's *in* the hat?
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Yes; that's what I want to know.
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What's *in* the hat?
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Yes, you are n't going to give me a sovereign -- ?
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I'll give you two sovereigns.
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You are n't going to give me a sovereign, and rise it
to two sovereigns, for an *empty* hat?
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But I must have my hat. I can't be seen in the streets
like this. There's nothing *in* the hat. What do you
think's in the hat?
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Ah, I'm not clever enough to say that, but it looks as
if the papers was in that hat.
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The papers?
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Yes, papers proving, if you can get them, that you're
the heir to that big house, and some poor innocent will
be defrauded.
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Look here, the hat's absolutely empty. I *must* have
my hat. If there's anything in it you shall have it
yourself as well as the two pounds, only get me my hat.